Battling Angels and Golden Orange Blossoms: Thai Television and/as the Popular Public Sphere

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Titre
Battling Angels and Golden Orange Blossoms: Thai Television and/as the Popular Public Sphere
Résumé
On 19 September 2006, the fi rst indication many people in Thailand received that the country was undergoing another military coup d’ é tat, the eighteenth such putsch since 1932, was when the nation’s six free-to-air television networks suddenly suspended regular programming and, channel by channel, started to broadcast a generic mix of royal news and light entertainment (Connors and Hewison 2008). Final confi rmation came again via television later that evening in the form of an offi cial announcement, broadcast at regular intervals across all stations from a central feed, in which the armed commanders in chief behind the coup – the awkwardly titled ‘Administrative Reform Group under the Democratic System with the King as the Head of State’ – explained apologetically that they had temporarily taken control of the nation’s airwaves, as indeed of the nation, exhorting viewers to remain calm and reassuring them that normalcy would soon be restored, at which point broadcasting reverted to the same steady flow of innocuous entertainment programming. For all its exceptional gravity, the 2006 coup’s strategic blend of direct state interventionist control of broadcasting combined with a more indirect use of escapist entertainment as populist pacifi er is arguably a structural characteristic of Thai television history writ large.
Titre du livre
Television Histories in Asia: Issues and Contexts
Lieu
Londres
Maison d’édition
Routledge
Date
15 août 2015
Pages
74-91
Langue
Anglais
ISBN
978-0-203-73650-0
Titre abrégé
Battling angels and golden orange blossoms
Extra
Num Pages: 18
Référence
Farmer, B. (2015). Battling Angels and Golden Orange Blossoms: Thai Television and/as the Popular Public Sphere. Dans Television Histories in Asia: Issues and Contexts (p. 74‑91). Routledge. https://worldcat.org/en/title/1064530196
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