Transnational Korean Television - Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences

Korean TV dramas and non-drama programs have diversified transnational TV flows around the world. This book provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas' transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility.

List of contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I: Transnational Korean Television With East Asia
1. Transforming the Korean Television Industry: the Korean Wave
2. Korean TV Drama Narratives: Are Korean Dramas a Transcultural Story?
3. Korean TV Shows with East Asian Partnership
Part II: Transnational Korean Television In America
4. Digital Audiences, Fans, and Fandom
5. The Power of Streaming TV: Netflix, DramaFever, and American Viewers
6. Korean Television Formats
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

By Hyejung Ju

Summary

Korean TV dramas and non-drama programs have diversified transnational TV flows around the world. This book provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas’ transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility.

Product details

• Authors: Hyejung Ju
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498565172
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6517-2
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Transnational Communication an; Transnational Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Korea, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, Communication Studies, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Regional & National