The Korean popular culture reader by Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969- editor; Choe, Youngmin, editor instant download

The Korean popular culture reader by Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969- editor; Choe, Youngmin, editor instant download

xi, 450 pages : 24 cm, \"Provides a timely and essential foundation for the study of \"K-pop,\" relating the contemporary cultural landscape to its historical roots. The essays in this collection reveal the intimate connections of Korean popular culture, or hallyu, to the peninsula's colonial and postcolonial histories, to the nationalist projects of the military dictatorship, and to the neoliberalism of twenty-first-century South Korea. Combining translations of seminal essays by Korean scholars on topics ranging from sports to colonial-era serial fiction with new work by scholars based in fields including literary studies, film and media studies, ethnomusicology, and art history, this collection expertly navigates the social and political dynamics that have shaped Korean cultural production over the past century.\"--, Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-429) and index, Introduction: Indexing Korean popular culture / Kyung Hyun Kim -- The world in a love letter / Boduerae Kwon -- Fisticuffs, high kicks, and colonial histories : the ambivalence of modern Korean identity in postwar narrative comics / Kyu Hyun Kim -- It all started with a bang : the role of PC bangs in South Korea's cybercultures / Inkyu Kang -- As seen on the internet : the recap as translation in English-language K-drama fandoms / Regina Yung Lee -- Regimes within regimes : film and fashion cultures in the Korean 1950s / Steven Chung -- The quasi patriarch: Kim Sŭng-ho and South Korean postwar movies / Kelly Jeong -- The partisan, the worker, and the hidden hero : popular icons in North Korean film / Travis Workman -- Face value : the star as genre in Bong Joon-ho's Mother / Michelle Cho -- Bend it like a man of Chosun : sports nationalism and colonial modernity of 1936 / Jung Hwan Cheon -- \"She became our strength\" : female athletes and (trans)national desires / Rachael Miyung Joo -- Young musical love of the 1930s / Min-Jung Son -- Birth, death, and resurrection of group sound rock…