The Comparative Study on Settings of Homosexual Roles in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland's TV Series

DOI

10.2991/icadce-17.2017.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hong Kong, Tai Wan and mainland; TV series; homosexuality; the screen image

Abstract

The effects of civilization of social environment and western culture make Chinese values develop diversely. And the topic of homosexuality is also on the way to publicity from sensitivity. Of course, this kind of public discussion exists a lot of restrictions of propaganda way, target audiences, acceptance, opportunities and fields. Because of the differences between social culture and political context, there is a clear distinction among Hong Kong, Tai Wan and mainland in terms of this topic. Especially the discrepancy of homosexual image is representative on the TV screen among mainland, Hong Kong and Tai Wan. The paper researching homosexual roles in TV series between two areas of China, analyzes contrastively for four aspects of roles, TV series themes, proportion of male and female roles and the degree of characterization, aiming at exploring the different thoughts of creating marginal group's movie arts in Hong Kong, Tai Wan and mainland.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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