The K-Wave On-Screen: In Words and Objects

ISBN-13: 9781032066530 / Angielski

Jieun Kiaer; Emily Lord; Loli Kim

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The K-Wave On-Screen provides an engaging and accessible exploration of the meaning of ‘K-’ through the lens of words and objects in K-dramas and K-films.

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Prelims

Chapter 1. Defining K-

De-Westernised and de-colonised discourses

Agency of K-fandom

A birds-eye view of the K-Wave

The stats

Why the K-Wave on screen through words and objects?

Chapter 2. Squid Game

Training Suit

Mask

Korean neighbourhood

Dalgona

Ddakji

Hibiscus flower

Loan-shark's ontract

Side dishes

Spoon

"We are kkanbu"

"I ate steak already with my stepdad"

Oppa, hyeong, sajangnim

Chapter 3. Parasite

Banjiha

Neighbourhood

‘Temple of excrement’ and sleeping mat

Window

From low to high – from poor to rich

Entrance

Neighbourhood

Entrance

House with a garden

Bath, bed, and art

Staircase

A housewife’s hanbok

Ramdon

Fruit

University certificate

Scholar’s Rock

Chapter 4. SKY Castle

University exam

English

Parental capitol

College coordinator

Chapter 5. Mr Sunshine

Suits, kimono, or hanbok?

Jangot, palanquins, and neo-Confucian womanhood

Hair

Newspapers

Jemulpo harbor

Candy

Chapter 6. Pachinko

Colonisation

Scar

Pachinko machine

White

White rice

White hanbok

Suit, kimono, or hanbok?

Television

VHS was all we had!

Then streaming opened everything up!

Landscape

The sea

The fish market

Eomma’s house

Chapter 7. Kim Ji-young: Born 1982

Contemporary Korean womanhood and K-

#MeToo

Female voices

Women should work without rest except when eating

Apron

Peeling fruit

Chapter 8. Kingdom

Opening scene

Dragon

Glutenous rice in the mouth

Three ties

Gat

Feather

Hairpins and hairpieces

Beef pancakes

Clown

Sources

Index

O autorze

Jieun Kiaer is the Young Bin Min-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Linguistics at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Senior Research Fellow and Dean of Degrees at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

Emily Lord, MSt., is a Faculty Research Specialist at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security, University of Maryland.

Loli Kim is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Haenyeo project at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford.