1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464697603321

Autore

Jung Sun <1972->

Titolo

Korean masculinities and transcultural consumption [[electronic resource] ] : Yonsama, Rain, Oldboy, K-Pop idols / / Sun Jung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2011

ISBN

988-220-712-X

988-8053-63-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

TransAsia: screen cultures

Disciplina

306.09519

Soggetti

Masculinity in popular culture - Korea (South)

Cross-cultural studies - 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

""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Notes on the Usage of the Korean Language""; ""1 -  Korean Popular Culture and Transcultural Consumption""; ""2 - Bae Yong-Joon, Soft Masculinity, and Japanese Fans""; ""3 - Rain, Global Masculinity, and Singaporean Fans""; ""4 - Oldboy, Postmodern Masculinity, and Western Fandom on Film Review Websites""; ""5 - K-Pop Idol Boy Bands and Manufactured Versatile Masculinity""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""List of Media Productions""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the transcultural consumption of hybrid South Korean masculinities in contemporary South Korean popular culture. It focuses on the Japanese middle-aged female fandom of an actor - Bae Yong-Joon (aka. Yonsama) - the middle class Singaporean female fandom of a pop-star Rain, and the Western online cult fandom of a film, Oldboy.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794451503321

Autore

Coleman Charly

Titolo

The spirit of french capitalism : economic theology in the age of enlightenment / / Charly Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-1483-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times

Disciplina

261.8508828244

Soggetti

Capitalism - History - France - 18th century

Economics - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Capitalism - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

France Church history 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 The Economy of the Mysteries -- CHAPTER 2 Perpetual Penance and Frequent Communion -- CHAPTER 3 The Spirit of Speculation -- CHAPTER 4 Usury Redeemed -- CHAPTER 5 The Cult of Consumption -- CHAPTER 6 Luxury and the Origins of the Fetish -- EPILOGUE Encounters with Economic Theology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the Enlightenment, a sense of the miraculous did not wither under the cold light of calculation. Scarcity, long regarded as the inescapable fate of a fallen world, gradually gave way to a new belief in heavenly as well as worldly affluence. Animating this spiritual imperative of the French economy was a distinctly Catholic ethic that-in contrast to Weber's famous "Protestant ethic"-privileged the marvelous over the mundane, consumption over production, and the pleasures of enjoyment over the



rigors of delayed gratification. By viewing money, luxury, and debt through the lens of sacramental theory, Coleman demonstrates that the modern economy casts far beyond rational action and disenchanted designs, and in ways that we have yet to apprehend fully.