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

Hyejung Ju is associate professor of mass communication at Claflin University.

Product details

• Authors: Hyejung Ju
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2022
• EAN: 9781498565196
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6519-6
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: 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