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Author:   Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University, Australia) ,  Eva Tsai (National Taiwan Normal University) ,  Chris Berry
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780415749428

ISBN 10:   0415749425
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   28 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Critical approaches to East Asian pop culture Part I: Historicization and Spatialization of East Asian pop culture 1. Historicizing East Asian Pop Culture, 2. East Asian popular culture and inter-Asian referencing 3. Hybridity, Korean Wave and Asian Media 4. Been informal and formal cultural economy: Chinese subtitle groups and flexible accumulation in the age of online viewing 5. Digital Diaspora, Mobility and Home Part II: The development of national production and its regional circulation/connection 6. Films 6a. Ways of S. Korean Cinema: Phantom, Trans –Cinema and Korean Blockbusters 6b. Welcome to Chollywood: Chinese Language Cinema as a Transborder Assemblage 6c. Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imagining the Inescapable Japan 7. TV dramas 7a. Bordercrossing, Local Modification and Transnational Transaction of TV Dramas in East Asia 7b. Confucian Heroes in Popular Asian Dramas in the Age of Capitalism 8. Pop Music 8a. K-pop, the Sound of Subaltern Cosmopolitanism? 8b. The legendary live venues and the changing music scenes in Taipei and Beijing: Underworld and D22 9. Social media and popular activism 9a. Social Media and Popular Activism in a Korean Context 9b. Mobilizing Discontent: Social Media and Networked Activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake 9c. Social media in China: between an emerging civil society and commercialization View III: Gender. Sexuality and Asian celebrity 10. East Asian stars, - public space and star studies 11. Ribbons and Frills: Shōjo Sensibility and the Transnational Imaginary 12. Queer Pop Culture in the Sinophone Mediasphere 13. Male and Female Idols of the Chinese Pornosphere 14. Soft, Smooth with Chocolate Abs: Performance of a Korean Masculinity in Taiwanese Men’s Fashion Part IV: Politics of the commons 15. Shanzhai culture, Dafen art and Copyrights 16. Regional soft power/creative industries competition 17. Popular Culture and Historical Memories of War in Asia 18. Film Festivals and Regional Cosmopolitanism in East Asia: the case of Busan International Film Festival 19. Trans-East-Asia as method

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Koichi Iwabuchi is a Professor & Director of Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia. Eva Tsai is an Associate Professor at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Chris Berry is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London, UK.

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