Televisual experiences of poverty and abundance: Entertainment television in the Philippines

Pertierra, AC

Televisual experiences of poverty and abundance: Entertainment television in the Philippines

Pertierra, AC

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Publisher:: WILEY
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2018, 29, (1), pp. 3-18
Issue Date:: 2018-04-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pertierra, AC
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-20T07:34:55Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-20T07:34:55Z
dc.date.issued	2018-04-01
dc.identifier.citation	Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2018, 29, (1), pp. 3-18
dc.identifier.issn	1035-8811
dc.identifier.issn	1757-6547
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/159069
dc.description.abstract	This paper draws from ethnographic research on entertainment television in the Philippines, in which poverty, suffering, abundance and joy are materialised and enacted as central themes. Examples are considered from a particularly successful Philippine television program, Eat Bulaga, in which audience members compete to win prizes of cash, bank accounts, feasts, appliances or vehicles. While the production of this television program creates a wider, mediated representation of poverty and abundance, suffering and joy, the paper focuses on the practices and experiences of the people – including production staff and audience members - whose participation in the making of this television program is a materially, and at times spiritually, transformative event. In doing so, Eat Bulaga consolidates and remediates a large market of television audiences whose self-understanding incorporates the mass consumption of particular goods as being central to the Philippine experience of poverty-in-modernity.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	WILEY
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110100075
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian Journal of Anthropology
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1111/taja.12261
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1601 Anthropology, 2102 Curatorial and Related Studies, 2103 Historical Studies
dc.subject.classification	Anthropology
dc.title	Televisual experiences of poverty and abundance: Entertainment television in the Philippines
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Abstract:

This paper draws from ethnographic research on entertainment television in the Philippines, in which poverty, suffering, abundance and joy are materialised and enacted as central themes. Examples are considered from a particularly successful Philippine television program, Eat Bulaga, in which audience members compete to win prizes of cash, bank accounts, feasts, appliances or vehicles. While the production of this television program creates a wider, mediated representation of poverty and abundance, suffering and joy, the paper focuses on the practices and experiences of the people – including production staff and audience members - whose participation in the making of this television program is a materially, and at times spiritually, transformative event. In doing so, Eat Bulaga consolidates and remediates a large market of television audiences whose self-understanding incorporates the mass consumption of particular goods as being central to the Philippine experience of poverty-in-modernity.

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