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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456512303321

Titolo

East Asian pop culture [[electronic resource] ] : analysing the Korean wave / / edited by Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press

London, : Eurospan [distributor], 2008

ISBN

988-220-688-3

1-282-70884-8

9786612708848

988-8052-22-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

TransAsia: Screen Cultures Series

Altri autori (Persone)

ChuaBeng Huat

IwabuchiKōichi <1960->

Disciplina

300

791.43/6095

791.45095195

Soggetti

Television programs - Korea (South)

Popular culture - Korea (South)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: East Asian TV dramas: identifications, sentiments and effects / Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi -- The growth of Korean cultural industries and the Korean wave / Doobo Shim -- Renting East Asian popular culture for local television: regional networks of cultural production / Tania Lim -- Mediating nationalism and modernity: the transnationalization of Korean dramas on Chinese (satellite) TV / Lisa Leung -- Structure of identification and distancing in watching East Asian television drama / Chua Beng Huat -- Re-imagining a cosmopolitan 'Asian Us': Korean media flows and imaginaries of Asian modern femininities / Angel Lin and Avin Tong -- Winter sonata and cultural practices of active fans in Japan: considering middle-aged women as cultural agents / Yoshitaka Mōri -- Touring 'dramatic Korea': Japanese women as viewers of Hanryu dramas and tourists on Hanryu



tours / Yukie Hirata -- Popular cultural capital and cultural identity: young Korean women's cultural appropriation of Japanese TV dramas / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Mapping out the cultural politics of "the Korean wave" in contemporary South Korea / Keehyeung Lee -- Rap(p)ing Korean wave: national identity in question / Fang-chih Irene Yang -- Existing in the age of innocence: pop stars, publics, and politics in Asia / Eva Tsai -- When the Korean wave meets resident Koreans in Japan: intersections of the transnational, the postcolonial and the multicultural / Koichi Iwabuchi.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides, collectively, a multi-layered analysis of the emerging East Asian media culture, using the Korean TV drama as its analytic vehicle.