Straight Korean Female Fans And Their Gay Fantasies
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Straight Korean Female Fans And Their Gay Fantasies
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Author : Jungmin Kwon
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2019-02-15
Straight Korean Female Fans And Their Gay Fantasies written by Jungmin Kwon and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-15 with Social Science categories.
This book is about ardent Korean female fans of gay representation in the media, their status in contemporary Korean society, their relationship with other groups such as the gay population, and, above all, their contribution to reshaping the Korean media’s portrayal of gay people. Jungmin Kwon names the Korean female fandom for gay portrayals as “FANtasy” subculture, and argues that it adds to the present visibility of the gay body in Korean mainstream media, thus helping to change the public’s perspective toward sexually marginalized groups. The FANtasy subculture started forming around text-based media, such as yaoi, fan fiction, and U.S. gay-themed dramas (like Will & Grace), and has been influenced by diverse social, political, and economic conditions, such as the democratization of Korea, an open policy toward foreign media products, the diffusion of consumerism, government investment in the culture, the Hollywoodization of the film industry, and the popularity of Korean culture abroad. While much scholarly attention has been paid to female fandom for homoerotic cultural texts in many countries, this book seeks to explore a relatively neglected aspect of the subculture: its location in and influence on Korean society at large.
Transnational Convergence Of East Asian Pop Culture
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Author : Seok-Kyeong Hong
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-08
Transnational Convergence Of East Asian Pop Culture written by Seok-Kyeong Hong and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-08 with Social Science categories.
This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing on innovative theoretical perspectives and grounded empirical research, an international team of authors consider the history of transnational flows within pop culture and then systematically address pop culture,digital technologies, and the media industry. Chapters cover the Hallyu—or Korean Wave—phenomenon, as well as Japanese and Chinese cultural industries. Throughout the book, the authors address the convergence of the once-separated practical, industrial, and business aspects of popular culture under the influence of digital culture. They further coherently synthesize a vast collection of research to examine the specific realities and practices of consumers that exist beyond regional boundaries, shared cultural identities, and historical constructs. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students of Asian media, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, transcultural communication, or sociology.
Queer Transfigurations
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Author : James Welker
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2022-05-31
Queer Transfigurations written by James Welker and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-31 with Social Science categories.
The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL’s male–male romantic and sexual relationships have found a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where strong local fan communities and locally produced BL works have garnered a following throughout the region, taking on new meanings and engendering widespread cultural effects. Queer Transfigurations is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia—and beyond. Contributors draw on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed light on BL media and its fandoms. Queer Transfigurations reveals the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia. In short, Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate and transform lives.
Introducing Korean Popular Culture
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Author : Youna Kim
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-28
Introducing Korean Popular Culture written by Youna Kim and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-28 with Social Science categories.
This new textbook is a timely and interdisciplinary resource for students looking for an introduction to Korean popular culture, exploring the multifaceted meaning of Korean popular culture at micro and macro levels and the process of cultural production, representation, circulation and consumption in a global context. Drawing on perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, including media and communications, film studies, musicology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, history and literature, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Korean popular culture and its historical underpinnings, changing roles and dynamic meanings in the present moment of the digital social media age. The book’s sections include: K-pop Music Popular Cinema Television Web Drama, Webtoon and Animation Digital Games and Esports Lifestyle Media, Fashion and Food Nation Branding An accessible, comprehensive and thought-provoking work, providing historical and contemporary contexts, key issues and debates, this textbook will appeal to students of and providers of courses on popular culture, media studies and Korean culture and society more broadly.
Women We Love
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Author : SooJin Lee
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Women We Love written by SooJin Lee and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Social Science categories.
Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the key female actors of this global phenomenon. Using “women” as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women, this volume examines the role of women in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces, encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender, dissemination of media, and fan culture. In addition to the communities engaged with visual culture of the Korean Wave, the audience for Women We Love will reflect the contributors to this text. They are K-pop and K-drama fans, queer, international; they are also academics of Asian histories, sociology, gender and sexuality, art history, and visual culture. The chapters are playful, intersectional, and will be adapted well into syllabi for media studies, gender studies, visual culture studies, sociology, and contemporary global history. “Women We Love goes far beyond the dyad of the flower boy Hallyu star and his female fan to offer readers an illuminating discussion of plural femininities in the Korean Wave since the turn of the millennium. The essays will answer many burning yet heretofore unanswered questions about the affective resonances and political significance of Korean popular culture’s gender dynamics, which have fascinated, puzzled, and at times frustrated many fans and observers. Rigorously interdisciplinary, yet grounded in textual detail, historical context, and material reception practices, this is a timely and valuable contribution to the study of gender, fandom, and global media.” —Michelle Cho, University of Toronto “This is a provoking and fascinating book—one of the most awaited books in Hallyu studies. Drawing from a multitude of feminist theories and case studies, this edited volume not only provides captivating and much-needed discussions but also critically expands the current debates in gender studies, feminism studies, and fan studies. This book is vital literature for researchers, students, and practitioners who are willing to advance their understanding of the Korean Wave from a new scope and angle.” —Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University
Here Comes The Flood
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Author : Moisés Park
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Here Comes The Flood written by Moisés Park and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Social Science categories.
This collection breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, specifically examining issues of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in a variety of cultural products including K-pop, K-drama, and cover dancing through the lens of how “Koreanness” can be defined. A diverse range of of contributors showcase how Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, began as a wave rolling across Asia and morphed into a tsunami that has impacted every continent, making Korean popular culture an industry that draws in fans on a global scale. The stereotypes and issues being explored in this collection, contributors argue, are intertwined with how Koreans both at home and in the diaspora portray themselves publicly and consider themselves privately. In tandem with this, international fans of Hallyu take part in the conversation through performance and imitation, either reinforcing or breaking away from these stereotypes. Contributors examine a wide variety of settings to connect the concepts of traditional Korean values to modern Korean society in a symbiotic relationship between these values and cultural content creators. Scholars of media studies, pop culture, gender studies, Asian studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.
Asian Celebrity Cultures In The Digital Age
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Author : Jian Xu
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2025-03-05
Asian Celebrity Cultures In The Digital Age written by Jian Xu and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-05 with Social Science categories.
Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies. Highlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernisation and internationalisation of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies. ‘It has been a long time since the necessity of de-Westernising or de-Anglicising media and cultural studies was advocated. Yet much more needs to be done and celebrity studies is one of the least de-Westernised fields, given that the concept of “celebrity” itself is rather Euro-American-centric. This collection does not just accomplish this task credibly and comprehensively but also gives new empirical and theoretical insights into the field by analysing various emerging questions in the digitalised environment. Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age is a must-read for all scholars and students seeking to understand the diverse operation of cultural politics of fame and stardom in a digitally connected world.’ —Koichi Iwabuchi, University of Technology Sydney ‘This collection offers a vital intervention into the historically Western-centric field of celebrity studies in its examination of the rich and complex celebrity cultures emerging across Asia. Jian Xu, Glen Donnar, and Divya Garg have assembled a diverse set of scholars whose compelling and dynamic contributions draw attention to the unique historical, social, cultural, and political contexts shaping particular Asian celebrity cultures, as well as the broader impact those celebrity cultures have within an increasingly globalised and digitalised media landscape. Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age is an important book that sheds much-needed light on the transformations in how we engage with and study celebrities in the twenty-first century.’ —Erin A. Meyers, Oakland University ‘Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age is an updated volume that explores the evolving landscape of celebrity and fandom cultures across Asia. This collection meticulously documents cases from various locales, highlighting the impact of online culture and social media on the cultural politics of identity, language, gender, religion, and more. Featuring insights from local experts and researchers, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of how technology is reshaping celebrity and power dynamics in contemporary Asian societies.’ — Anthony Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong ‘This timely and significant edited collection is the first comprehensive study of how Asian celebrity culture has been transformed by the digital media era. Taking themes and case studies from the online arenas of political celebrity, fandom, and social media influencers, the book traverses both national and transnational contexts, with China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia as anchoring stopping off points. The collection is rich in its analysis and complex in its journeying and findings, with highly original chapters on such topics as Livestreaming BTS, Indonesian Religious Influencers, VTubers and Disability, and Singapore’s Political Celebrity-Scape. This is a must read for those interested in how celebrity flows through the digital oceans of Asia.’ — Sean Redmond, RMIT University, Australia
The Routledge Companion To Media Fandom
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Author : Melissa A. Click
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-03-24
The Routledge Companion To Media Fandom written by Melissa A. Click and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-24 with Social Science categories.
This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to chart new directions for research. Engaging an impressive array of media texts and formats, and incorporating a variety of methodologies, this collection is designed to survey, complicate, and expand core concerns. This second edition includes 20 new chapters, 11 revised chapters, and 12 reprinted chapters organized into four main sections: Methods, Ethics and Theoretical Approaches; Fan Practices and Platforms; Identities; and Industry and Labor. Each section features a short introduction that discusses the section’s scope and contributions, highlights the importance of the section’s topic to fan studies, and offers suggestions for further reading. This collection remains an essential volume for students and scholars interested in fandom and fan studies, popular culture, media studies, and film and television studies.
The Cambridge Companion To K Pop
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Author : Suk-Young Kim
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-09
The Cambridge Companion To K Pop written by Suk-Young Kim and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-09 with Music categories.
Probes the complexities of this vibrant global phenomenon, its infrastructure, idols, dance practices, and transnational community building.
Boys Love Media In Thailand
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Author : Thomas Baudinette
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-05
Boys Love Media In Thailand written by Thomas Baudinette and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Art categories.
Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL's impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom. The author explores how the rise of BL has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture, leading to heterosexual female fans of male celebrities who perform homoeroticism becoming the main audience to whom Thai pop culture is geared. Through the case study of BL, this book thus also investigates how Thai media is responding to broader regional trends across Asia where the economic potentials of female and queer fans are becoming increasingly important. Baudinette ultimately argues that the center of queer cultural production in Asia has shifted from Japan to Thailand, investigating both the growing international fandom of Thailand's BL series as well as the influence of international investment into the development of these media. The book particularly focuses on specific case studies of the fandom for Thai BL celebrity couples in Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Japan to explore how BL series have transformed each of these national contexts' queer consumer cultures.