TY - JOUR
T1 - Televised minority beauties
T2 - Ethnocultural mobility and femininity in Singapore’s television beauty contests
AU - Khiun, Liew Kai
AU - Manokara, Nidya Shanthini
AU - T’a’at, Lizawati Mohd
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/11
Y1 - 2016/11
N2 - Drawing on two beauty contests Ratu Suria (2012) and Miss Vasantham (2004–present) from the minority Malay and Tamil television stations in Singapore as case studies, this article seeks to map out the contours of ethnocultural scripting of gender and femininity. Rather than finding idealized beauties, these contests have brought to the surface anxieties of ethnocultural incompleteness. More importantly, they also reveal the extent of ethnocultural mobility in the contestants negotiating the ideological contours required by the state-supported minority television stations towards an idealized multicultural minority beauty.
AB - Drawing on two beauty contests Ratu Suria (2012) and Miss Vasantham (2004–present) from the minority Malay and Tamil television stations in Singapore as case studies, this article seeks to map out the contours of ethnocultural scripting of gender and femininity. Rather than finding idealized beauties, these contests have brought to the surface anxieties of ethnocultural incompleteness. More importantly, they also reveal the extent of ethnocultural mobility in the contestants negotiating the ideological contours required by the state-supported minority television stations towards an idealized multicultural minority beauty.
KW - Ethnocultural mobility
KW - Minority television
KW - Miss Vasantham
KW - Positional femininity
KW - Ratu Suria
KW - Singapore
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028083689&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1749602016662045
DO - 10.1177/1749602016662045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028083689
SN - 1749-6020
VL - 11
SP - 330
EP - 347
JO - Critical Studies in Television
JF - Critical Studies in Television
IS - 3
ER -