The Korean popular culture reader /
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
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Indexing Korean popular culture / by Kyung Hyun Kim
- The world in a love letter / by Boduerae Kwon
- Fisticuffs, high kicks, and colonial histories : the ambivalence of modern Korean identity in narrative comics / by Kyu Hyun Kim
- It all started with a bang : the role of PC bangs in South Korea's cybercultures / by Inkyu Kang
- As seen on the internet : the recap as translation in English-language K-drama fandoms / by Regina Yung Lee
- Regimes within regimes : film and fashion cultures in the Korean 1950s / by Steven Chung
- The quasi patriarch: Kim Sŭng-ho and South Korean postwar movies / by Kelly Jeong
- The partisan, the worker, and the hidden hero : popular icons in North Korean film / by Travis Workman
- Face value : the star as genre in Bong Joon-ho's Mother / by Michelle Cho
- Bend it like a man of Chosun : sports nationalism and colonial modernity of 1936 / by Jung Hwan Cheon
- "She became our strength" : female athletes and (trans)national desires / by Rachael Miyung Joo
- Young musical love of the 1930s / by Min-Jung Son
- Birth, death, and resurrection of group sound rock / by Pil Ho Kim and Hyunjoon Shin
- The popularity of individualism : the Seo Taiji phenomenon in the 1990s / by Roald Maliangkay
- Girls' generation? : gender, (dis)empowerment, and K-pop / by Stephen Epstein (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) with James Turnbull (Dongseo)
- South Korean advertising as popular culture / by Olga Fedorenko
- The global Hansik campaign and commodification of Korean cuisine / by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
- Back Seung Woo's blow up (2005-2007) : touristic fantasy, photographic desire, and catastrophic North Korea / by Sohl Lee.
