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Murugan, Meenasarani Linde.

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Exotic Television: Technology, Empire, and Entertaining Globalism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exotic Television: Technology, Empire, and Entertaining Globalism./
Author:	Murugan, Meenasarani Linde.
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3724333
ISBN:	9781339078083

Exotic Television: Technology, Empire, and Entertaining Globalism.
Murugan, Meenasarani Linde.

Exotic Television: Technology, Empire, and Entertaining Globalism. - 228 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2015.

US television from its beginnings as a commercial industry offered numerous engagements with and performances of exoticism. While television technology was often marketed using the tropes of exoticism---TV being advertised as a magic carpet---early variety shows often featured exotic acts: Chinese acrobats, Indian belly dancers, "Oriental" magicians, and conga drummers, among others. Yet, despite their presence, historians have generally neglected their significance to the rise of television as a cultural form. I shed light on these performances of exoticism not to recuperate their xenophobia, racism, sexism, and heteronormantivity but to challenge the nation-bound---and at times---nationalist rhetoric of television studies. Though these performances and programs do not necessarily challenge nationalism---often they further affirm US exceptionalism in their lampooning of "othered" customs---they do gesture toward the dynamic of imperialism that is concomitant with US nationalism, which is often unacknowledged in historical research on television.

ISBN: 9781339078083Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

Exotic Television: Technology, Empire, and Entertaining Globalism.
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520 $a This dissertation focuses on how variety shows---even in the absence of actual geographic space being traversed---imagined foreign locations and people. I analyze the uses of dance, music, and costume to invoke global space and create transnational affiliation. While critics and industry executives promoted television as a new utopian instrument that would create international peace through global communication, in the more practical world of television production, TV served to remediate well-established forms of exoticism that could previously be seen in vaudeville, movies, novels, radio, and carnivals. Strikingly, what resulted was a presentation of a global community that at its heart was still invested in and predicated on preserving exoticism and visualizing it through a plurality of phenotypes, makeup, dances, and costumes. As this visual rhetoric has been mobilized by the United States since WWII in its ascendance to world power, scholars have labeled it multiculturalism and global multiculturalism, among other names. This project recovers how central television was to this visualizing of a global community and US empire; I show how TV exoticism fostered unexpected alliances between non-dominant peoples.
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