Asian Popular Culture In Transition

Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons,John A. Lent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415692847

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Asian Popular Culture in Transition by Lorna Fitzsimmons,John A. Lent Pdf

"Examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, Japan, and Singapore and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information technologies and globalization have impacted cultural markets, fashion, the digital generation, mobile culture, femininity, matrimonial advertising, and a film actress' image and performance."--Publisher's description.

Author : Koichi Iwabuchi,Eva Tsai,Chris Berry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317285014

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Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture by Koichi Iwabuchi,Eva Tsai,Chris Berry Pdf

Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products have led to the construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’. This is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the national cultures, and generates transnational co-production and reinvention. As East Asian popular culture becomes a global force, it is increasingly important for us to understand the characteristics of contemporary East Asian popular culture, and in particular its transnational nature. In this handbook, the contributors theorize East Asian experiences and reconsider Western theories on cultural globalization to provide a cutting-edge overview of this global phenomenon. The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture will be of great interest to students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines, including: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies in general.

Author : Anthony Y.H. Fung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134089956

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Asian Popular Culture by Anthony Y.H. Fung Pdf

This book examines different aspects of Asian popular culture, including films, TV, music, comedy, folklore, cultural icons, the Internet and theme parks. It raises important questions such as – What are the implications of popularity of Asian popular culture for globalization? Do regional forces impede the globalizing of cultures? Or does the Asian popular culture flow act as a catalyst or conveying channel for cultural globalization? Does the globalization of culture pose a threat to local culture? It addresses two seemingly contradictory and yet parallel processes in the circulation of Asian popular culture: the interconnectedness between Asian popular culture and western culture in an era of cultural globalization that turns subjects such as Pokémon, Hip Hop or Cosmopolitan into truly global phenomena, and the local derivatives and versions of global culture that are necessarily disconnected from their origins in order to cater for the local market. It thereby presents a collective argument that, whilst local social formations, and patterns of consumption and participation in Asia are still very much dependent on global cultural developments and the phenomena of modernity, yet such dependence is often concretized, reshaped and distorted by the local media to cater for the local market.

Author : Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000351330

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture by Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin Pdf

This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing on innovative theoretical perspectives and grounded empirical research, an international team of authors consider the history of transnational flows within pop culture and then systematically address pop culture,digital technologies, and the media industry. Chapters cover the Hallyu—or Korean Wave—phenomenon, as well as Japanese and Chinese cultural industries. Throughout the book, the authors address the convergence of the once-separated practical, industrial, and business aspects of popular culture under the influence of digital culture. They further coherently synthesize a vast collection of research to examine the specific realities and practices of consumers that exist beyond regional boundaries, shared cultural identities, and historical constructs. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students of Asian media, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, transcultural communication, or sociology.

Author : John A Lent,Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136300974

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Asian Popular Culture in Transition by John A Lent,Lorna Fitzsimmons Pdf

Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information technologies and globalization have impacted cultural markets, fashion, the digital generation, mobile culture, femininity, matrimonial advertising, and a film actress’ image and performance. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources and methods including historical research, content analysis, anthropological observation, textual analyses, and interviews, Asian Popular Culture in Transition makes a significant contribution to this growing area of research. Given its broad range of countries, theories, and approaches, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies, and gender studies.

Author : Timothy J. Craig,Richard King
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859790

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Global Goes Local by Timothy J. Craig,Richard King Pdf

In Global Goes Local, international scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives examine different forms of popular culture in Asia. Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms can be invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance that also meet the needs of their particular audiences.

Author : Nissim Otmazgin,Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136622946

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Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia by Nissim Otmazgin,Eyal Ben-Ari Pdf

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official thinking toward the role of popular culture in the political life of states brought about by the massive circulation of cultural commodities and the possibilities for attaining "soft power". In contrast to earlier studies, this volume pays particular attention to the role of states and cross-state cultural interactions in these processes. It is the first major attempt to look at these issues comparatively and to provide an important corrective to the limitations of existing scholarship on popular culture in Asia that have usually neglected its political aspects. As part of this move, the essays in this volume suggest a widening of disciplinary perspectives. Hitherto, the preponderance of relevant studies has been in cultural and media fields, anthropology or history. Here the contributors explicitly draw on other disciplinary perspectives – political science and international relations, political economy, law, and policy studies – to explore the complex interrelationships between the state, politics and economics, and popular culture. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian culture, society and politics, the sociology of culture, political science and media studies.

Author : Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098924

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East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua,Koichi Iwabuchi Pdf

The contributors analyse the subject of Asian pop culture arranged under three headings: 'Television Industry in East Asia', 'Transnational-Crosscultural Receptions of TV Dramas' and 'Nationalistic reactions'.

Author : Eyal Ben-Ari,Nissim Otmazgin
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971696009

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Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia by Eyal Ben-Ari,Nissim Otmazgin Pdf

This wide-ranging volume is the first to examine the characteristics, dynamics and wider implications of recently emerging regional production, dissemination, marketing and consumption systems of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia. Using tools based in a variety of disciplines - organizational analysis and sociology, cultural and media studies, and political science and history - it elucidates the underlying cultural economics and the processes of region-wide appropriation of cultural formulas and styles. Through discussions of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Philippine and Indonesian culture industries, the authors in the book describe a major shift in Asia's popular culture markets toward arrangements that transcend autonomous national economies by organizing and locating production, distribution, and consumption of cultural goods on a regional scale. Specifically, the authors deal with patterns of co-production and collaboration in the making and marketing of cultural commodities such as movies, music, comics, and animation. The book uses case studies to explore the production and exploitation of cultural imaginaries within the context of intensive regional circulation of cultural commodities and images. Drawing on empirically-based accounts of co-production and collaboration in East and Southeast Asia's popular culture, it adopts a regional framework to analyze the complex interrelationships among cultural industries. This focus on a regional economy of transcultural production provides an important corrective to the limitations of previous studies that consider cultural products as text and use them to investigate the "meaning" of popular culture.

Author : Beng Huat Chua
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9882208703

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Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua Pdf

In this book, the author examines East Asian pop culture as an integrated regional cultural economy that combines Japanese and Korean pop culture with the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture. The book provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences' formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. It will appeal to scholars and students as well as general readers who are interested in media and cultural studies.

Author : John A. Lent
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-29
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : UOM:39015046386705

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Asian Popular Culture by John A. Lent Pdf

Though Asian popular culture has had its impact on the United States, we know little of significance about it. This book provides a readable, in-depth understanding of the spectrum of Asian popular culture including popular music, pornography, toys, comic art, cartooning, humor, film, television, advertising, gossip, language, and public transportation, from Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Thailand, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.

Author : Yaowei Zhu,Yiu-Wai Chu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438446455

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Lost in Transition by Yaowei Zhu,Yiu-Wai Chu Pdf

Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons,John A. Lent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137270207

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Popular Culture in Asia by Lorna Fitzsimmons,John A. Lent Pdf

Popular Culture in Asia consists studies of film, music, architecture, television, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, addressing three topics: urban modernities; modernity, celebrity, and fan culture; and memory and modernity.

Author : Michiyo Yoneno- Reyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fans (Persons)
ISBN : 9718992200

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East Asian Popular Culture by Michiyo Yoneno- Reyes Pdf

Author : Daniel Black,Olivia Khoo,Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783487103

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Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black,Olivia Khoo,Koichi Iwabuchi Pdf

Brings together leading and emerging scholars from Asia, North America and Australia to develop new perspectives on the key issues in contemporary Asian cultural and media studies.