Popular culture in Asia
Subtitle: memory, city, celebrity
By: edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons, Associate Professor of Humanities, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, and John A. Lent, independent scholar
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781137270191
Subjects: Popular culture; Mass media and culture
Description: This book provides perspectives on relationships between Asian popular culture and a number of major socio-political issues and movements, including war responsibility, democratization, globalization, urbanization, modernization, and gender reconstruction. It consists of studies of film, music, television, anime, architecture, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore. Themes include the relationships between popular culture and nationalism, Western social forces and cultural forms, regionalism, political change, modernity, traditionalism, and gender identity. The three sections of the book--memory, city, celebrity--are interlinked in their shared concern with the socio-political functions of popular culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lorna Fitzsimmons; title: Memory. Engaging the Valley of Death: The Dialogue with Modernity in The Burmese Harp / Lorna Fitzsimmons; title: National Allegory, Modernization, and the Cinematic Patrimony of the Marcos Regime / Talitha Espiritu; title: Censorship and the Unfinished Past: Political Satire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Sueyoung Park-Primiano; title: City. Modernizing the Urban Landscape: Architecture and the Internationalized Face of Asia / Ian Morley; title: Romancing Urban Modernity in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai: The Film About Love and the Shaping of a Discursive East Asian Popular Culture / Romit Dasgupta; title: Imagining Modernity in Contemporary Malaysia: Non-Western Soap Opera and the Negative Urban Morality / Azizah Hamzah and Md Azalanshah Md Syed; title: Celebrity. Gender Reconstruction in Post-Mao Urban China: The Interplay between Modernity and Popular Culture / Hong Zhang; title: Beyond the "Fragile Woman": Identity, Modernity, and Musical Gay Icons in Overseas Chinese Communities / Shzr Ee Tan; title: Jay Chou's Music and the Shaping of Popular Culture in China / Wei-Hsin Lin.