Popular Culture in Asia [electronic resource] : Memory, City, Celebrity /
Fitzsimmons, Lorna.author.
Lent, John A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Lorna Fitzsimmons -- Memory. Engaging the Valley of Death: The Dialogue with Modernity in The Burmese Harp / Lorna Fitzsimmons -- National Allegory, Modernization, and the Cinematic Patrimony of the Marcos Regime / Talitha Espiritu -- Censorship and the Unfinished Past: Political Satire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Sueyoung Park-Primiano -- City. Modernizing the Urban Landscape: Architecture and the Internationalized Face of Asia / Ian Morley -- Romancing Urban Modernity in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai: The Film About Love and the Shaping of a Discursive East Asian Popular Culture / Romit Dasgupta -- Imagining Modernity in Contemporary Malaysia: Non-Western Soap Opera and the Negative Urban Morality / Azizah Hamzah and Md Azalanshah Md Syed -- Celebrity. Gender Reconstruction in Post-Mao Urban China: The Interplay between Modernity and Popular Culture / Hong Zhang -- Beyond the "Fragile Woman": Identity, Modernity, and Musical Gay Icons in Overseas Chinese Communities / Shzr Ee Tan -- Jay Chou's Music and the Shaping of Popular Culture in China / Wei-Hsin Lin.
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.
Ethnology-Asia.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
Ethnicity.
Cultural policy.
Asian Culture.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.
Cultural Policy and Politics.