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Global Asian American Popular Cultures
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dave, Shilpa; Nishime.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans in popular culture.
- Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
- Asian Americans.
- Asian Americans--Migrations.
- Asian Americans--Social conditions.
- Civilization, Modern--American influences.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Popular culture--Social aspects.
- Popular culture.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Transnationalism--Social aspects.
- Transnationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints—such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce—have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of “Asian” and “Asian American” are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collectionexplores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Trans-Pacific Flows
- 2. “I’m Thankful for Manny”
- 3. A History of Race and He(te)rosexuality in the Movies
- 4. Model Maternity
- 5. YouTube Made the TV Star
- 6. David Choe’s “KOREANS GONE BAD”
- 7. From the Mekong to the Merrimack and Back
- 8. “You’ll Learn Much about Pakistanis from Listening to Radio”
- 9. Online Asian American Popular Culture, Digitization, and Museums
- 10. Asian American Food Blogging as Racial Branding
- 11. Picturing the Past
- 12. Paradise, Hawaiian Style
- 13. Post-9/11 Global Migration in Battlestar Galactica
- 14. “Did You Think When I Opened My Mouth?”
- 15. Winning the Bee
- 16. The Blood Sport of Cooking
- 17. Curry as Code: Food, Race, and Technology
- 18. Bollywood’s 9/11
- 19. Hybrid Hallyu
- 20. Transnational Beauty Circuits
- 21. Making Whales out of Peacocks
- 22. Failed Returns
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-0371-5
- OCLC:
- 1175623029
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