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Introducing Korean Popular Culture
Youna Kim, Youna Kim
- 424 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Introducing Korean Popular Culture
Youna Kim, Youna Kim
About This Book
This new textbook is a timely and interdisciplinary resource for students looking for an introduction to Korean popular culture, exploring the multifaceted meaning of Korean popular culture at micro and macro levels and the process of cultural production, representation, circulation and consumption in a global context.
Drawing on perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, including media and communications, film studies, musicology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, history and literature, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Korean popular culture and its historical underpinnings, changing roles and dynamic meanings in the present moment of the digital social media age. The book's sections include:
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- K-pop Music
- Popular Cinema
- Television
- Web Drama, Webtoon and Animation
- Digital Games and Esports
- Lifestyle Media, Fashion and Food
- Nation Branding
An accessible, comprehensive and thought-provoking work, providing historical and contemporary contexts, key issues and debates, this textbook will appeal to students of and providers of courses on popular culture, media studies and Korean culture and society more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: Situating Korean Popular Culture in the Global Culture Landscape
- Part I K-pop Music
- Part II Popular Cinema
- Part III Television
- Part IV Web Drama, Webtoon and Animation
- Part V Digital Games and Esports
- Part VI Lifestyle Media, Fashion and Food
- Part VII Popular Culture and Nation Branding
- Index