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Straight Korean female fans and their gay fantasies / Jungmin Kwon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kwon, Jungmin, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Fandom & culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people in popular culture--Korea (South).
- Gay people in popular culture.
- Gay men--Korea (South).
- Gay men.
- Manners and customs.
- Fans (Persons).
- Korea (South).
- Gay men in mass media.
- Fans (Persons)--Korea (South).
- Gay men--Relations with heterosexual women--Korea (South).
- Gay men--Relations with heterosexual women.
- Korea (South)--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 232 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This study is about ardent Korean female fans of gay representation in the media, their status in contemporary Korean society, their relationship with other groups such as gay men, and, above all, their contribution to reshaping the media's portrayal of gay people, as well as the public attitude toward sexually marginalized groups. Kwon calls the female fandom of gay portrayals "FANtasy culture" and argues that it enables the present growing visibility of the gay body in Korean mainstream media. She also argues that fandom has functioned as a catalyst to ameliorate a harsh reality for a marginalized group. The FANtasy subculture started forming around text-based media, such as yaoi (or "boys' love" manga, a Japanese genre), fan fiction, and U.S. gay-themed dramas, and has been influenced by diverse social, political, and economic conditions, such as the democratization of Korea, an open policy toward foreign media and cultural products, the diffusion of consumerism, government investment in Korean culture, the Hollywoodization of the film industry, and the popularity of Korean culture abroad. While much scholarly attention has been paid to the female fans of homoerotic cultural texts in other countries, Kwon explores both the understudied Korean case and another aspect of the subculture that has been relatively neglected: its location in and influence on the society at large"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Girl fans queered
- Fans empowered
- Fantasy mainstreamed
- Fantasy cinematized
- Fantasy bridged.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kwon, Jungmin, 1980- Straight Korean female fans and their gay imagination.
- ISBN:
- 9781609386214
- 1609386213
- OCLC:
- 1077575300
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