「這又不是演戲」 “We’re not playacting here”: Self-Reflexivity in the Taiwanese Idol-Drama

Wang, W. Michelle

doi:10.1353/jnt.2015.0002

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“…Deliberately parodying scenes that television audiences were highly critical of in both versions of Fabulous Boys demonstrates both production teams’ intention to engage purposefully with these intertexts, in order to foreground author–audience relations (see also Wang [2015], where I make a similar point in my discussion of self-reflexivity in the Taiwanese idol drama.). As Wilkie-Stibbs explains:as well as assuming familiarity with an ‘already read’ intertext, the ‘focused texts’ are at the same time foregrounding their own authenticity; that is, they purport to be more authoritative than the texts they are quoting and are thereby undermining the ‘truth’ of their pre-texts.…”

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Parodic intertextuality in the Taiwanese idol drama

Wang

2016

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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In this article, I examine the recent proliferation of parodic intertextuality in Taiwanese idol dramas and suggest that it functions to interrogate genre issues in Taiwanese television production by foregrounding author–audience relations. Using six case studies from three Taiwanese idol dramas, KO One, KO One Re-Act and Fabulous Boys, I propose that the idol drama uses parody not only to comedic ends but further serves to implicitly critique dominant modes of Taiwanese television through what Mittell calls ‘genre mixing’.

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