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Explores the memories generated and histories constructed by the transnational circulation of popular media texts amongst East Asia and between East and Southeast Asia. It looks at the impact of nostalgia and heritage within popular culture over the decades.

List of contents

Introduction / 1. Paramesias from Nanyang to National Cinema: Travels, Modernity and Memories / 2. Televisual Medical Heritage Medical Television Dramas in East Asia / 3. Digital enshrinement, holographic resurrections / 4. Remembering encounters with the Korean Wave / 5. Remember and Resist: Transnational Hokkien/Hoklo Neo-Folks Conclusion: Transnational Pop and Cultural Memory / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Liew Kai Khiun is Assistant Professor in Broadcast & Cinema Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has been researching and teaching about transnational popular culture flows in East and South East Asia for more than a decade. His work has been published in several journals including the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Media, Culture and Society and Sojourn.

Summary

Explores the memories generated and histories constructed by the transnational circulation of popular media texts amongst East Asia and between East and Southeast Asia. It looks at the impact of nostalgia and heritage within popular culture over the decades.

Product details

• Authors: Liew Kai Khiun, Khiun Liew Kai
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781783484379
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-437-9
• Series: Asian Cultural Studies; Asian Cultural Studies; Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals, South East Asia, Theory of music & musicology, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Asian History, Film Theory & Criticism, Music of film and stage, Film history, theory or criticism, Theory of music and musicology