The Inter-Asia cultural studies reader / / edited by Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huat

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (641 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.095
• Soggetto geografico: Asia History; Asia Civilization; Asia Social life and customs; Asia Civilization Case studies; Asia Social life and customs Case studies
• Altri autori: ChenKuan-Hsing ChuaBeng Huat
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors and translators; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements project; Part I: Setting the agenda; Chapter 1 How does Asia mean?; Chapter 2 The politics of imagining Asia: A genealogical analysis; Chapter 3 Alternative frames?: Questions for comparative research in the third world; Chapter 4 Conceptualizing an East Asian popular culture; Chapter 5 Producing knowledge of Southeast Asia: A Malaysian view; Part II: State violence ; Chapter 6 Democracy and the violence of the state: A political negotiation of deathChapter 7 Decolonialization and assumption of war responsibility; Chapter 8 Mourning Korean modernity in the memory of the Cheju April Third Incident; Chapter 9 Indonesia's original sin: Mass killings and capitalist expansion, 1965-66; Part III: Americanism; Chapter 10 Embodiment of American modernity in colonial Korea; Chapter 11 'America' as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War ; Chapter 12 Okinawa's 'postwar': Some observations on the formation of American military bases in the aftermath of terrestrial warfarePart IV: Feminism; Chapter 13 You are entrapped in an imaginary well': The formation of subjectivity within compressed development - a feminist critique of modernity and Korean culture; Chapter 14 Women and freedom; Chapter 15 Caught in the terrains: An inter-referential inquiry of trans-border stardom and fandom; Part V: Sexuality; Chapter 16 Embodying gender: Transgender body/subject formations in Taiwan ; Chapter 17 State power, prostitution and sexual order in Taiwan: Towards a genealogical critique of 'virtuous custom'Chapter 18 Reticent poetics, queer politics; Part VI: Cinema; Chapter 19 Transnational imagination in action cinema: Hong Kong and the making of a global popular culture; Chapter 20 The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian cinema: Cultural nationalism in a global arena; Chapter 21 Detouring through Korean cinema; Chapter 22 The birth of the local feminist sphere in the global era: 'Trans-cinema' and Yosongjang; Part VII: Other popular cultures ; Chapter 23 Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisisChapter 24 Emotional energy and sub-cultural politics: Alternative bands in post-1997 Hong Kong; Chapter 25 Feminization of the 2002 World Cup and women's fandom; Chapter 26 The power of circulation: Digital technologies and the online Chinese fans of Japanese TV drama; Part VIII: Movements; Chapter 27 Asian peace movements and empire; Chapter 28 Revitalizing the Bandung spirit; Chapter 29 Rethinking social movements through retranslating the economy; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions of cultural studies, the journal has emerged as the leading publication in Cultural Studies in Asia.The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader brings together the best of the ground breaking papers published in the journal and includes a new introduction by the editors, Chen Kuan-Hsing and Chua Beng Huat. Essays are grouped in thematic sections, including issues which are important across the region, such as State violence and social movements and work produced by IACS sub-groups, such as feminism, queer studies, cinema studies and popular culture studies.The Reader provides useful alternative case studies and challenging perspectives, which will be invaluable for both students and scholars in media and cultural studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Inter-Asia cultural studies reader
• ISBN: 1-134-08396-3; 1-134-08397-1; 1-280-91778-4; 9786610917785; 0-203-96098-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784794603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II