Phantom Of Power

Entering the 21st century, China's TV culture has opened a new page. Along with the concept of frequent television production innovation, local television culture of transition period showing flourish of lively scene. Obviously, this has become one of the most important landscapes of the current media culture. Accordingly, the television production and consumption, but also triggered a practical application level, the level of theoretical research on warm. But rather unfortunately, the reality of TV theoretical research is not promising, showing a situation is more than heat, not deep enough. In fact, in the conflict intersection of economic, political, social and cultural forces, television culture, in essence, reflects the different requirements of power relations, and different ways of operation of power. Therefore, the power is the key that we dispersed clouds, perspective cultural core of China's TV. Who is in the use and impact of television? How to work of power resources behind the China's TV culture? These problems still worth our careful consider revising. So I try to introduce the French sociologist Bourdieu's thinking of the media and try to provide another theory tool of depth analysis to the existing China's TV culture.This paper is divided into five sections:The introduction introduces national general situation on China's TV Culture Studies. It discusses the present domestic study conditions and some shortages of this study. In the last part of the introduction, the frame and the viewpoint of this paper are presented.In the first section, the author hackle Bourdieu academic track, so as to hold the overall context of Bourdieu theory. Secondly, the core of Bourdieu's sociology thinking methodology has been summarized, that is, field,capital and habit. Finally, I want to introduce Bourdieu's thinking of the media, and explore feasibility it can be used to perspective the TV culture of China.In the next three sections, the paper will put up case studies on the basis of theoretical analysis to demonstrate the basic path of Bourdieu's discourse analysis to perspective China's TV culture. Indeed, the discussion of China's TV culture is a huge issue. Considering the limited space, this article only chooses the most representative parts of China's current television culture that is the TV news programs, entertainment programs and television dramas, and also that will be supported by the momentum of the rapid rise of the television media phenomenon as corroboration.In the fourth section, I will consult Bourdieu's "Intellectuals" theory to see about the "television intellectuals" phenomenon in China's TV culture. In my view, in the market conditions, the cultural capital's operation is an important aspect of TV culture production. The control of cultural capital and the media have decided to basic social and cultural trends and the direction of the mainstream ideology. Therefore, to the producer of TV culture, we should not treat it lightly.In the epilogue, I will emphasize once more the importance and practical significance to use Bourdieu's theory to perspective China's TV culture. Particularly, the three Core theories in Pierre Bourdiue's social theory of practice: the field, cultural capital and symbols of violence, that will indeed open a new window to the existing TV culture studies of China.