ISBN:
9781137270207
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.095
Keywords:
Mass media and culture -- Asia
;
Popular culture -- Asia
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Memory -- 1 Engaging with the Valley of Death: The Dialogue with Modernity in The Burmese Harp -- 2 National Allegory, Modernization, and the Cinematic Patrimony of the Marcos Regime -- 3 Censorship and the Unfinished Past: Political Satire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema -- Part II: City -- 4 Modernizing the Urban Landscape: Architecture and the Internationalized Face of Asia -- 5 Romancing Urban Modernity in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai: The Film About Love and the Shaping of a Discursive East Asian Popular Culture -- 6 Imagining Modernity in Contemporary Malaysia: Non-Western Soap Opera and the Negative Urban Morality -- Part III: Celebrity -- 7 Gender Reconstruction in Post-Mao Urban China: The Interplay between Modernity and Popular Culture -- 8 Beyond the "Fragile Woman": Identity, Modernity, and Musical Gay Icons in Overseas Chinese Communities -- 9 Jay Chou's Music and the Shaping of Popular Culture in China -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
