Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia

Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia
Title Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia PDF eBook
Author Chris Berry
Publisher Hong Kong University Press
Pages 338
Release 2009-05-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9622099750

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These timely essays highlight regional cross-fertilization in music, film, new media, and popular culture in Northeast Asia, including analysis of gender and labor issues amid differing regulatory frameworks and public policy concerning cultural production and piracy.

East Asian Pop Culture

East Asian Pop Culture
Title East Asian Pop Culture PDF eBook
Author Beng Huat Chua
Publisher Hong Kong University Press
Pages 328
Release 2008-02-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9789622098923

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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'.

Cool Japan

Cool Japan
Title Cool Japan PDF eBook
Author Timothy J. Craig
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2020
Genre Japan
ISBN 9784990982287

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Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia

Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia
Title Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia PDF eBook
Author Lee, Micky
Publisher Policy Press
Pages 312
Release 2021-05-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1529213371

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Media technologies for play have become major industries in Japan and South Korea. Even in North Korea, citizens bypass the state to enjoy popular culture. At the same time, corporations and governments encourage people to produce economic values through play. The first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas, this book illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations between the three countries through their development and use of digital technologies. Drawing from political economy, cultural studies and technology studies, this book will be essential reading for researchers and students of media technologies and popular culture in Northeast Asia.

Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia

Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia
Title Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia PDF eBook
Author Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher NUS Press
Pages 290
Release 2012-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9971696002

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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.

Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture
Title Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture PDF eBook
Author Beng Huat Chua
Publisher Hong Kong University Press
Pages 199
Release 2012-03-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9888139037

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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 of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences’ formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. In an era where exercise of military power is increasingly restrained, pop culture has become an important component of soft power diplomacy and transcultural collaborations in a region that is still haunted by colonization and violence. The author notes that the aspirations behind national governments' efforts to use popular culture is limited by the fragmented nature of audiences who respond differently to the same products; by the danger of backlash from other members of the importing country's population that do not consume the popular culture products in question; and by the efforts of the primary consuming country, the People's Republic of China to shape products through co-production strategies and other indirect modes of intervention.

K-Pop

K-Pop
Title K-Pop PDF eBook
Author John Lie
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 248
Release 2015
Genre Music
ISBN 0520283120

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K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.