The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global

ISBN-13: 9780415712781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 234 str.

Youna Kim

Opis

Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context? This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity and paradox within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures. The emerging consequences at multiple levels - both macro structures and micro processes that influence media production, distribution, representation and consumption - deserve to be analyzed and explored fully in an increasingly global media environment. This book argues for the Korean Wave's double capacity in the creation of new and complex spaces of identity that are both enabling and disabling cultural diversity in a digital cosmopolitan world. The Korean Wave combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in an up-to-date and accessible volume ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of Media and Communications, Cultural Studies, Korean Studies and Asian Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Korean Media in a Digital Cosmopolitan World  Part I: Power and Politics of the Global  1. Soft Power and the Korean Wave  2. The Korean Wave as Method: Inter-Asian Referencing  3. Reconfiguring Media and Empire  Part II: Popular Media and Digital Mobile Culture  4. Korean Wave Pop Culture in the Global Internet Age: Why Popular? Why Now? 5. For the Eyes of North Koreans? Politics of Money and Class in Boys Over Flowers  6. K-pop Female Idols in the West: Racial Imaginations and Erotic Fantasies  7. Negotiating Identity and Power in Transnational Cultural Consumption: Korean American Youths and the Korean Wave  8. Digitization and Online Cultures of the Korean Wave: "East Asian" Virtual Community in Europe  9. Hybridization of Korean Popular Culture: Films and Online Gaming  10. K-pop Dance Trackers and Cover Dancers: Global Cosmopolitanization and Local Spatialization  Part III: Perspectives Inside/Outside  11. Cultural Policy and the Korean Wave: From National Culture to Transnational Consumerism  12. Re-Worlding Culture?: YouTube as a K-pop Interlocutor  13. The Korean Wave as a Cultural Epistemic  14. The Korean Wave and "Global Culture"

O autorze

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (2005, Routledge); Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (2008, Routledge); Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (2011, Routledge); Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (2012, Palgrave Macmillan); Global Nannies: Minorities and the Digital Media (in preparation).