Popular Culture in Asia : Memory, City, Celebrity
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137270195
ISBN-13
9781137270191
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 7th, 2013
Print length
222 Pages
Weight
410 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.30 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
AsiaPopular cultureEthnic studies / EthnicityPopular cultureBlack & Asian studies
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Popular Culture in Asia consists studies of film, music, architecture, television, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, addressing three topics: urban modernities; modernity, celebrity, and fan culture; and memory and modernity.
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.
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