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The Korean Popular Culture Reader.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Kyung Hyun.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--History--20th century--Korea (South).
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (471 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection provides a timely and essential foundation for studying Korean popular culture (""K-pop"") by looking at its global popularity, relation to the contemporary cultural landscape, and historical roots.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction Indexing Korean Popular Culture
- Chapter 1. The World in a Love Letter
- Chapter 2. Fisticuffs, High Kicks, and Colonial Histories
- Chapter 3. It All Started with a Bang: The Role of PC Bangs in South Korea’s Cybercultures
- Chapter 4. As Seen on the Internet: The Recap as Translation in English-Language K-drama Fandoms
- Introduction
- Chapter 5. Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion Cultures in the Korean 1950s
- Chapter 6. The Quasi Patriarch: Kim Sŭng-ho and South Korean Postwar Movies
- Chapter 7. The Partisan, the Worker, and the Hidden Hero: Popular Icons in North Korean Film
- Chapter 8. Face Value: The Star as Genre in Bong Joon-ho’s Mother
- Chapter 9. Bend It Like a Man of Chosun: Sports Nationalism and Colonial Modernity of 1936
- Chapter 10. “She Became Our Strength”: Female Athletes and (Trans)national Desires
- Chapter 11. Young Musical Love of the 1930s
- Chapter 12. Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Group Sound Rock
- Chapter 13. The Popularity of Individualism: The Seo Taiji Phenomenon in the 1990s
- Chapter 14. Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop
- Chapter 15. South Korean Advertising as Popular Culture
- Chapter 16. The Global Hansik Campaign and the Commodification of Korean Cuisine
- Chapter 17. Seung Woo Back’s Blow Up (2005–2007): Touristic Fantasy, Photographic Desire, and Catastrophic North Korea
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822377566
- 082237756X
- OCLC:
- 1171011369
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