Asian Popular Culture in Transition

Asian Popular Culture in Transition
Title Asian Popular Culture in Transition PDF eBook
Author Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher Routledge
Pages 202
Release 2013
Genre History
ISBN 0415692849

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"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.

Asian Popular Culture in Transition

Asian Popular Culture in Transition
Title Asian Popular Culture in Transition PDF eBook
Author John A Lent
Publisher Routledge
Pages 202
Release 2013-02-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 113630097X

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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.

East Asian Popular Culture

East Asian Popular Culture
Title East Asian Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author Michiyo Yoneno- Reyes
Publisher
Pages 190
Release 2013
Genre Fans (Persons)
ISBN 9789718992203

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Lost in Transition

Lost in Transition
Title Lost in Transition PDF eBook
Author Yaowei Zhu
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 230
Release 2013-06-01
Genre History
ISBN 1438446454

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

Popular Culture in Asia

Popular Culture in Asia
Title Popular Culture in Asia PDF eBook
Author Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher Springer
Pages 298
Release 2013-05-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137270209

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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.

Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
Title Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature PDF eBook
Author Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Publisher Routledge
Pages 249
Release 2014-11-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317619102

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Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war’s never-ending ‘postwar’ period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of saigo or ‘post-disaster.’ This radically new worldview has significantly altered the socio-political as well as literary perception of one of the world’s potential superpowers, and in this book the contributors closely examine how Japan’s new paradigm of precarious existence is expressed through a variety of pop-cultural as well as literary media. Addressing the transition from post-war to post-disaster literature, this book examines the rise of precarity consciousness in Japanese socio-cultural discourse. The chapters investigate the extent to which we can talk about the emergence of a new literary paradigm of precarity in the world of Japanese popular culture. Through careful examination of a variety of contemporary texts ranging from literature, manga, anime, television drama and film this study offers an interpretation of the many dissonant voices in Japanese society. The contributors also outline the related social issues in Japanese society and culture, providing a comprehensive overview of the global trends that link Japan with the rest of the world. Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature will be of great interest to students and scholars of contemporary Japan, Japanese culture and society, popular culture and social and cultural history.

Asian Popular Culture

Asian Popular Culture
Title Asian Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author John A. Lent
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 195
Release 2012-11-29
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0739179624

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Asian Popular Culture: New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media, edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons, is an interdisciplinary study of popular culture practices in Asia, including regional and national studies of Japan, China, South Korea, and Australia. The contributors explore the evolution and intersection of popular forms (gaming, manga, anime, film, music, fiction, YouTube videos) and explicate the changing cultural meanings of these media in historical and contemporary contexts. At this study’s core are the roles popular culture plays in the construction of national and regional identity. Common themes in this text include the impact of new information technology, whether it be on gaming in East Asia, music in 1960s’ Japan, or candlelight vigils in South Korea; hybridity, of old and new versions of the Chinese game Weiqi, of online and hand-held gaming in South Korea and Japan that developed localized expressions, or of United States culture transplanted to Japan in post-World War II, leading to the current otaku (fan boy) culture; and the roles that nationalism and grassroots and alternative media of expression play in contemporary Asian popular culture. This is an essential study in understanding the role of popular culture in Asia’s national and regional identity.