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Subversion And Break Out

Posted on:2008-12-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T GongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215499259Subject:Literature and art
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Culture studies is a new cross-subject method rising from western theory research since 1950s. As a new method for theory research, culture studies has been explaining and will explain features of human cultures to a large extent. Among all the branches on culture studies, study on popular culture gains great researching value in nowadays construct and context-explaining of modern consuming culture.In latest decades, Chinese literature field cares more about culture studies. One reason for this is that we can get access to more introduction from foreign new theory resources, and the other reason is because of necessity coming from changes on domestic culture field. So the modern TV culture, as one important form of popular culture, becomes the core for the popular culture research.In 2005, the'Super Girls', which was co-held by HuNan TV, TianYu Media Company and MengNiu company, arose the greatest participant and discussion from the whole mass of China. It surely became the important culture phenomenon judged from every angle. The'Super Girls'created the very beginning of Chinese'entertaining year'and indicated a real road to popular culture in the mixed atmosphere of being for and against it. During the processing of this program, it was also given more meanings on society and culture than its entertaining feature. Through the'Super Girls', Chinese modern society is carrying on another complete cultural transference after big changes on economy and culture of last century. In this process of transference, Chinese popular culture takes a seat in the culture world and brings out flourish in culture-popularization after its surpass on research culture and main-stream culture. Textual value of'Super Girls'is completely shown out on its subversion and breakout to traditional research culture and main-stream culture, even in a unconscious way. The appearance and wide acceptance of'Super Girls'of 2005 can be regarded as a meaningful cultural and social affair. It arose longest-lasting, widest population to take part in its social public opinion which is full of contradicts, thus affected the society through the widest category. People all are affected by the influences that are brought out by'Super Girls'in culture, society, economy and political fields.'Super Girls'centers on popularizing the mass and this spirit gained hottest response from the society. At the same time, it also broke up the current conditions in Chinese culture fields and was marked out as subversion and breakout to the main-stream culture.'Super Girls'created a revel which is never happened in China, by awakening the public to democracy and clearing up the mono langue mode, by rebellion to pure research and rewriting to female status and by creation to a new value-tasting standard. In a word, cultural and social meanings of'Super Girls'have been completely exposed through its whole process. The paper aiming at understanding the great inner power of'Super Girls'and reevaluating the central status of popular culture in modern society by researching on this typical and complex case–'Super Girls'.
Keywords/Search Tags:Culture Studies, popular culture, Super Girls, TV show live, revel, idol and anti-idol, body politics of Lens Time, androgyny
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