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  • Women We Love

    Femininities and the Korean Wave

    Edited by SooJin Lee, Kate Korroch, Liew Kai Khiun ...
    Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Queer Transfigurations

    Boys Love Media in Asia

    by Dr. Thomas Baudinette, Dr. Poowin Bunyavejchewin, Dr. Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin, Dr. Katrien Jacobs, Dr. Han Hau Lai, Byung’chu Dredge Kang-Nguyễn, Dr. Hyojin Kim, Dr. Jungmin Kwon, Dr. Aerin Lai, Dr. Xi Lin, Dr. Lakshmi Menon, Dr. Kazumi Nagaike, Dr. Gita Pramudita Prameswari, Dr. Asako P. Santo, Dr. Kristine Michelle Santos, Dr. Kania Arini Sukotjo, Dr. Peiti Wang, Dr. Yanrui Xu, Dr. Ling Yang, Dr. Wei Wei ...
    Series series Asia Pop!
    The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process ... Read more

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  • Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

    Edited by JungBong Choi, Roald Maliangkay ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea’s greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop’s ascendancy, and explores how they relate ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Diasporic Hallyu

    The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

    by Kyong Yoon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular ... Read more

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  • Bangtan Remixed

    A Critical BTS Reader

    Edited by Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Yutian Wong ...
    Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment. The collection’s contributors—who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans—approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives. From tracing BTS’s hip hop genealogy to analyzing how the band’s mid-2020 ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Hegemonic Mimicry

    Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century

    by Kyung Hyun Kim ...
    In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Films of Bong Joon Ho

    by Nam Lee ...
    Series series Global Film Directors
    Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Korean Wave

    Korean Media Go Global

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context?This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • K-pop Live

    Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of K-pop. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the meteoric ascent of Korean popular music in ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Soft Power of the Korean Wave

    Parasite, BTS and Drama

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    At this fascinating historical moment, this timely collection explores the new meaning of the Korean Wave and the process of media production, representation, distribution and consumption in a global context as a distinctive and complex form of soft power.Focusing on the most recent phenomenon of Korean popular culture, this book considers the Korean Wave in the global digital age and addresses ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD