影视古装剧的古与今

古装影视剧作为目前我国文化产业中的重要组成部分,在娱乐大众方面扮演着相应的角色。但是,作为大众了解历史,重塑民族性的一个通道,古装剧却将大众带离真正的历史,古装剧的过度娱乐化,其结果必然是古装剧的奇幻化,而历史的过度消费导致全民狂欢下民族性的瓦解,最后就是民族性的模糊化,文明现代化的断层。     

青年数字游戏消费的后亚文化批判

后亚文化背景下青年的数字游戏消费出现了娱乐要求与游戏成瘾间的矛盾。新媒介的传播和文化产业的繁荣为当代青年对数字游戏的消费提供了载体和空间。国内数字游戏被"标签"为"毒害",消费数字游戏的青年被归为"反叛"的亚文化群体。多数研究者漠视数字游戏在满足青年娱乐要求方面的正价值,把各种负面效应特别是成瘾性看成是青年消费数字游戏的主要结果。其实,娱乐作为青年文化的时代标志才是青年对数字游戏消费的主流指向。     

中国电视娱乐新闻的发展与对策——以光线传媒《娱乐现场》为例

本文以光线传媒《娱乐现场》为例,分析了中国电视娱乐新闻在发展中产生问题的解决对策,以期为娱乐新闻能得到更好地发展。     

银河娱乐吕志和：从不赌博的澳门新赌王

引言：受惠澳门博彩业，濠赌股银河娱乐股价近期屡创新高，在2013年12月13日达到了67．15港元，公司市值多达2832亿元。这也就意味着，银河娱乐股价只要再多升10多港元，其主席吕志和的身家便有可能超过长实主席李嘉诚。     

中国在美留学生数量持续增长

2008年9月3日,俄罗斯《财富》杂志公布的“俄罗斯儿童亿万富翁排行榜”显示：2008年,该国资产达到10亿美元以上的儿童有112位,他们所拥有的总资产约为4500亿美元。而2007年,拥有10亿美元以上资产的儿童有70位,总资产为2400亿美元。     

浅看国内网络体育娱乐化的现象

近十年来年国内网络新闻事业发展迅速。随着网络电视、网络直播等网络媒体产品的大范围普及,网络媒体已经赶超报刊、杂志甚至电视等传统媒体成为传播范围最广的媒体。但是网络新闻报道中也产生了许多各方面的问题,其中过度娱乐化是网络新闻发展过程中比较突出的问题,尤其表现在体育等娱乐类网络新闻上。由于体育新闻本身的娱乐大众的性质,使其更容易产生庸俗化、商业化以及过度娱乐化等问题。另外网络媒体对经济利益的追求也促使了网络体育类新闻内容的变质,大量色情、绯闻信息是过度娱乐化的直接体现。     

日本与海湾国家贸易点滴

据日本驻迪拜贸易机构最近公布的一份报告,1993年上半年,日本从海湾各国的进口贸易总额达121亿美元,而1992年同期为119亿美元。这份报告较详细地介绍了日本与海湾国的贸易近况。 l993年上半年,海湾各国从日本的进口贸易总额为47.85亿美元,而1992年同期为48.17亿美元,显然是下降了。 在日本从海湾国家进口的所有商品中,原油历来是第一位的。最近公布的这份报告表明,原油进口占其进口总额的76.6％。1993年上半年,日本从海湾国家进口了价值92.74亿的原油。而同期日本向海湾国家出口了价值17.l7亿美元的汽车,其中,向沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋、科威特、阿曼、巴林和卡塔乐出口的汽车价值分别为3.9亿美元、2.69亿美元、1.04亿美元、2.05亿美元和0.54亿美元。 这份报告强调:由于1993年初日元对美元的比价升值17.1％,日产商品价格上涨,使海湾国家从日本的进口额下降。沙特阿拉伯从日本的进口贸易额占整个海湾国家的44.4％,总价值为21.228亿美元,居各国之首,但与1992年上半年相比还是下降了15.7％,其中,汽车进口降幅为35.2％,纺织品为67.7％,矿产品为43.9％。与此形成鲜明对比的是,日本的电器产品(主要是录音机、录像机和彩电)在海湾各国市场上依然走俏,出口持续增长,且增幅较大,达11.6％。     

传媒娱乐的产业化——以光线传媒为例

中国的传媒属性在历史上一直都是以政治属性为主,一直都被喻为"党和政府的喉舌",鲜少见到传媒的娱乐属性,传媒天然具备的娱乐属性在中国的传媒业在政治属性的掩盖下显得不明显。随着中国社会主义市场经济的确立和社会主义民主政治的发展,尤其是随着中国加入WTO,中国大众传媒的市场引导、商业取向、消费主导等倾向逐渐明显,传媒娱乐属性开始回归。本文试图以光线传媒为例,从产业理论的角度,分析当下中国传媒产业品牌的娱乐化现状,分析其传媒娱乐产业化成功经验,以期为中国传媒娱乐产业品牌化健康发展提出建设性意见。     

世界公共交通简讯

<正> 美国 1991年由布什总统签署的联邦交通法规定联邦政府在1992至1997的6年内提供315亿美元的补贴用于公共交通事业,平均每年50多亿美元,比以前每年33亿美元增加约50％。另外在联邦交通基金中允许使用580亿美元,用于公共交通、自行车和行人的设施,其中299亿美元指定为灵活使用的基金。然而每年的拨款需经国会通过,由于联邦财政危机,美国公共交通协会估计,315亿美元中只能获得三分之二,而299亿美元中可能只有小部分能用于公共交通。     

浅谈车载GPS与信息娱乐系统发展趋势

GPS,即全球卫星导航系统(Global Positioning System),是以全球24颗定位人造卫星为基础,向全球各地全天候地提供三维位置、三维速度等信息的一种无线电导航定位系统。随着汽车电子技术的飞速发展,车载导航与信息娱乐系统正逐渐成为汽车厂商追捧的热点。本文将围绕车载导航与信息娱乐系统的发展方向,为汽车电子设计工程师和技术管理人员提供一个方向性的参考意见。     

Urban Myths: Popular Culture, the City and Identity

This article uses Manchester (England) as a case study to examine some relationships between the city and the popular culture that emerges from, or seeks to represent, this city. We focus on post-war popular culture that has been widely disseminated such as film, television and popular music. The article considers whether these examples of popular culture reflect wider urban, social and cultural change and discuss what impact this popular culture has had on changing the landscape and fortunes of the city. In particular, we discuss the case study of Manchester's popular culture in terms of ideas about place-based identities and social class. We consider popular culture in terms of de-industrialising Manchester through to regenerated Manchester. The paper concludes by discussing the possibility that the city centre of Manchester has become gentrified and considers the impact that this is having on popular culture.     

社会性别视域下高校美女文化现象解析

高校美女文化面临着泛化的倾向。造成这种现象的深层次原因与市场经济中女性地位的衰落直接相关。而高校社会性别教育的缺失削弱了女性的独立意识,大众文化的勃兴则强化着社会性别的刻板印象。高校美女文化的泛滥弱化了女大学生独立意识的形成,造成社会资源的浪费．也加剧了社会文化中男女不平等的局面,促使女性向传统价值观回归。为了重塑高校社会性别平等文化,应该使社会性别意识纳入政府决策主流,推动社会性别平等教育进入高等教学体系并实现学科建设主流化,培养大众传媒的社会性别意识。     

The Moral Economy of Money between the Gold Standard and the New Deal

In this article, I show that Depression‐era popular opposition to gold standard orthodoxy had an identifiable impact on New Deal policy. Popular pressure was rooted in a political‐economic vision I call the “moral economy of money.” The moral economy of money included a critique of the gold standard and creditor classes and advocated a democratization of control over money and credit to restore social justice. Against many odds, Roosevelt narrowly defeated congressional majorities connected to popular groups bent on mandating Treasury currency issue. At the same time, he pioneered a discourse that became generalized in the following decades and discouraged a reemergence of the moral economy of money.     

Stitching-up the labour market

In mainstream International Political Economy (IPE) writings on globalization, the multinational corporation (MNC) is placed at the centre of the emergence of a global market economy. Allied to this view is the normative position that these firms will have a positive, developmental impact on the states that they invest in. This article presents a gendered political economy perspective on the process of foreign direct investment (FDI), arguing that liberal IPE has failed to understand adequately the impact of the MNC on host states because of its attachment to ideas of rational action and modernization, and its assumption that the market is a gender-neutral space. By contrast, in this article, I argue that by looking at the gendered nature of recruitment practices within an MNC we are forced to confront the way in which firms work with existing inequalities embedded in the economy of the host state in order to secure a supply of low cost labour. The article presents case study research from an MNC operating in Malaysia, focusing on how company recruitment intersects with local social divisions based upon gender, ethnicity as well as age, rural–urban divides, class and education. I suggest that via its recruitment strategies, the firm plays a role in the construction of gendered and racialized inequalities. I argue that the MNC needs to be investigated as a site for the active construction of gendered identities across globalizing production lines, thus moving away from the traditional focus of feminist analysis of East Asian development on the experiences of the workers themselves.     

中国大众文化发展过程中的青年文化自觉

伴随着大众文化在中国的兴起和发展,中国青年文化经过了由文化迷惘、文化盲从到文化反省、文化自觉的发展过程。社会主义市场经济的发展、社会主义制度优越性的时代体现、红色文化的兴起与民族文化的复兴以及社会主义产业文化的大发展、大繁荣对青年的文化自觉、文化自信、文化选择都有积极的促进作用。     

POSTMODERNISM; OR,THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF POST-FORDISM?

This article examines attempts by Marxist thinkers such as Fredric Jameson and David Harvey to explain the cultural transition from modernism to postmodernism by the economic transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. They argue that the movement of advanced industrial societies from standardized mass production to diverse flexible production has created a new culture that stresses difference, superficiality, and ahistoricality. But in their attempts to portray a synchronous development of economy and culture, these thinkers ignore the uneven developments between and within each realm. I argue that in the United States the popular arts like automobile design developed postmodern traits long before the high arts like architecture. Instead of this change in popular culture resulting from post-Fordism, it dialectically influenced this economic change.     

Globalization and the Status of Current Research on the Indian Nonprofit Sector

An overview of recent trends in research on the Indian nonprofit sector is presented. The material is not exhaustive of all research that has been conducted, but instead discusses effects of globalization on the literature. As used here, globalization implies the worldwide rise of economic liberalism, universal trust in political democracy, the advent of cultural universalism, relative erosion of the power of nation-states, and global embracing of capitalism and commodity culture. The following distinct effects of globalization are discussed: diverse policy debates on nongovernmental organization (NGO) roles in development, challenges to the credibility of India's most popular and debated theory of nonprofits, the emergence of a large volume of literature on environmental and women's movements and organizations, and the shifting of attention to the study of NGOs. A deliberate effort is made to identify the backgrounds of some of the authors discussed in the article to direct attention to differences in content of the writings of NGO officials, activists, scholars, policy analysts, development consultants, Westerners, and Indians.     

PERFORMING THE VISUAL NORTH

During the last decade, the phrase ‘visual culture’ has come to identify a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the visual in everyday life. While analytic perspectives may come from gender, race or media theory, political economy, psychoanalysis, and so forth, there is an apparent agreement about the critical relation the visual has to subjectivity and social organization. The travelling of critical and cultural theory across disciplinary boundaries has given ‘visual culture’ an institutional form through new degrees, programmes, cross-faculty appointments, courses, introductory textbooks, and research publications. This paper comments on the intellectual history of ‘visual culture’, identifies cultural aspects of visual performance that have been understated in recent formulations of visual culture and visual studies, and argues that the current institutional form of visual culture research has contributed to the disappearance of cultural and anthropological approaches within visual culture. The paper is developed in relation to a case study involving popular photography as a cultural performance of the Canadian north, and considers the contribution of performance to visual culture.     

House Haunting: The Domestic Novel Of The Inter-War Years

In this article we attempt to historicize and address the literary manifestations of the meaning and idea of home culture in the English domestic novel of the inter-war years. During this period, the cult of domesticity was avidly promoted by the government and popular magazines. We discuss how both houses and novels furnish a dwelling place that invites the exploration of private and social relations. In their turn to domestic space and the domestic interior, domestic novelists of the inter-war years inaugurated a turn to interiority, feminine subjectivity and the everyday.