Popular culture in Asia : memory, city, celebrity / edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons, Associate Professor of Humanities, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, and John A. Lent, independent scholar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957-

Lent, John A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture--Asia.

Mass media and culture.

Popular culture--Asia.

Popular culture.

Asia.

Physical Description:

ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

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 concern with the socio-political functions of popular culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137270191

1137270195

OCLC:

811002701