Asian Popular Cultural

Asian Popular Culture explores the evolution and intersection of popular forms (gaming, manga, anime, film, music, YouTube videos) and explicates these media's changing cultural meanings in historical and contemporary contexts. At its core is the issue of the roles popular culture plays in the construction of national and regional identity.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Weiqi Legends, Then and Now: Cultural Paradigms in the Game of Go
by Marc L. Moskowitz
Chapter 2. Locating Play: The Situated Localities of Portable and Online Gaming in East Asia
by Dean Chan
Chapter 3. Regionalism in the Era of Neo-Nationalism: Japanese Landscape in the Background Art of Games and Anime from the Late-1990s to Present
by Kumiko Saito
Chapter 4. Otaku Evolution: Changing Views of the Fan-boy in Kon Satoshi's Perfect Blue and Paprika
by Joseph Christopher Schaub
Chapter 5. Breaking Records: Media, Censorship, and the Folk Song Movement of Japan's 1960s
by James Dorsey
Chapter 6. Mad-Cow Disease and Alternative YouTube Videos: Brechtian Politics of Aesthetics in Grassroots Media Spectacles, Voluntary Mobilization, and Collective Governance from Korea's Candlelight Movements
by Gooyong Kim
Chapter 7. Reaching Beyond the Manga: A Samurai to the Ends of the World and the Formation of National Identity
by Michael Wert
Chapter 8. Zen Dog: Lian Hearn's Hybrid Otori Pentalogy
by Sheng-mei Ma

About the author

Edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons

Summary

Asian Popular Culture explores the evolution and intersection of popular forms (gaming, manga, anime, film, music, YouTube videos) and explicates these media's changing cultural meanings in historical and contemporary contexts. At its core is the issue of the roles popular culture plays in the construction of national and regional identity.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lorna Fitzsimmons (Editor), Fitzsimmons Lorna (Editor), John A. Lent (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9781498503587
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0358-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Films, cinema, Communication Studies, East Asia, Far East, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General