Books written by Ien Ang

Chinatown Unbound: Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China

Goh, Daniel P. S. 2008. 'From Colonial Pluralism to Postcolonial Multiculturalism: Race, State Formation and the Question of Cultural Diversity in Malaysia and Singapore'. Sociology Compass 2 (1): 232–52. Grant, Bligh, ed.
Cultural Creation and Production in the Inner West LGA: A Case-Study Needs Analysis

This report follows in the footsteps of research conducted between 2016 and 2018 for the City of Sydney Council, which had the principal aim of mapping and analysing the needs of creative venues in the local government area.
The SBS Story: The Challenge of Diversity

Football/soccer had long been derided as an 'ethnic sport' in Australia, played only by European migrants and their sons. Les Murray, whose original name was László Ürge, came to Australia as a refugee from Hungary as a 12-year-old in ...
Desperately Seeking the Audience

Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it.
Desperately Seeking the Audience

——(1989) 'Changing Paradigms in Audience Studies', in E.Seiter, H.Borchers, G.Kreutzner and E.M.Warth (eds) Remote Control: Television Audiences and Cultural Power, ... Nightingale, V. (1986) 'What's Happening to Audience Research?
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World

Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on media audiences to ask what it means to live in a world saturated by media.
Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?

This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences

Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is ...
The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation

"During 2004-2010 C3West commissioned four Australian and international artists -- Craig Walsh, Sylvie Blocher, Ash Keating, and Jeanne van Heeswijk -- to produce art in partnership with a range of...
Cultural Studies: Volume 3

British pop sensibility (the reason why the pirates flattered us) was the result of the unprecedented American sales success of the Beatles and British beat.Before then (something conveniently forgotten now) British cover versions of ...
Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?

Bringing together scholarship from the perspective of the cultural disciplines, this book locates contemporary cultural diplomacy practices within their social, political, and ideological contexts, while examining the different forces that ...
Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media, and Popular Culture

Exploration of how Australia and Asia are interwined in everyday culture, and in the imagined worlds of Australians of all backgrounds. Investigates Asian cultural production of art, literature, media and...
Cultural Studies: Volume 3

Paper presented to the International Conference on Information, Technology and the New Meaning of Space, International Socio-logical ... Commission of the European Communities (1987) A Fresh Boost for Culture in the European Community.
Heritage and History in the China–Australia Migration Corridor

... houses but their differences to the house we sought were even more marked. At one point we stopped to talk with a ... Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton, and Mick Atha (London: Routledge, 2018). 43. See, for example, Lingchei Letty Chen, The ...
On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan.
Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

Dallas, one of the great internationally-screened soap operas, offers us first and foremost entertainment. But what is it about Dallas that makes that entertainment so successful, and how exactly is its entertainment constructed?