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UNINA9910300003503321 |
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Autore |
Ahn Ji-Hyun |
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Titolo |
Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media / / by Ji-Hyun Ahn |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVII, 231 p. 12 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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East Asian Popular Culture, , 2634-5935 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Communication |
Ethnology—Asia |
Motion pictures—Asia |
Documentary films |
Media and Communication |
Asian Culture |
Asian Cinema and TV |
Documentary |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The New Face of Korea -- Chapter 3. From National Threat to National Hero -- Chapter 4. Consuming Cosmopolitan White(ness) -- Chapter 5. Televising the Making of Neoliberal Multicultural Family -- Chapter 6. This is (Not) Our Multicultural Future. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. It explores the moments of ruptures and disjuncture that biracial bodies bring to the formation of neoliberal multiculturalism, a South Korean national racial project that re-aligns racial lines under the nation’s neoliberal transformation. Specifically, Ji-Hyun Ahn examines four televised racial moments that demonstrate particular aspects of neoliberal multiculturalism by demanding distinct ways of re-imagining what it means to be Korean in the contemporary era of globalization. Taking a critical media/cultural studies approach, |
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Ahn engages with materials from archives, the popular press, policy documents, television commercials, and television programs as an inter-textual network that actively negotiates and formulates a new racialized national identity. In doing so, the book provides a rich analysis of the ongoing struggle over racial reconfiguration in South Korean popular media, advancing an emerging scholarly discussion on race as a leading factor of social change in South Korea. |
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