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  • Learning modernity: lifestyle advice television in Australia, Taiwan and Singapore

    • Authors: Tania Lewis; Fran Martin (2010)

  • This article examines the role of lifestyle advice television programming in Australia, Taiwan and Singapore. Lifestyle television in the Asia-Pacific region includes a range of ‘popular factual’ formats from cooking and health shows to reality-style make-over shows and consumer advice programmes. What unites these shows, from Singapore’s highly popular Home De´cor Survivor to Taiwan’s Lifestyle Experts and Australia’s Better Homes and Gardens is their concern with instructing their audiences in everyday life skills while showcasing the latest consumer products and services. In this article we argue that, in inducting ordinary viewers into the ‘art of living’ these increasingly ubiq...
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  • Pedagogies of food and ethical personhood: TV cooking shows in postwar Taiwan

    • Authors: Ti Wei; Fran Martin (2015)

  • Taking one of the most representative subgenres of lifestyle TV, the cooking show, as a case study, in this article, we examine the history and changing cultural meanings of this televisual genre in the context of Taiwan’s postwar social history and TV industry. We conduct textual analyses of Taiwanese cooking shows across three different historical stages: Fu Pei Mei’s shows (the 1960s–1980s), Chen Hong’s shows (the 1990s), and Metrosexual Uber-Chef with Master Ah-Ji (the 2000s), in order to advance a critical exploration of the complex relationships between these popular media texts and their social and industrial contexts. We argue that, in line with the ongoing transformations in...