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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6.2 is out now

Intellect is thrilled to announce that East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6.2 is out now!

 

Special Issue: ‘Korean Screen Cultures’

 

For more information about the special issue and journal, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/east-asian-journal-of-popular-culture

 

Aims & Scope


The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture is the first academic peer-reviewed journal for scholars, teachers and students from around the world who have an active and passionate interest in the popular culture of East Asia. The journal is devoted to all aspects of popular culture in East Asia and the interplay between East Asia and the wider world.

 

Issue 6.2

 

Editorial

KATE TAYLOR-JONES, ANN HEYLEN AND EDWARD VICKERS

 

Articles

 

Interrogating the global success of J-pop and K-pop idols

DOROTHY FINAN

 

Intercultural sensitivity in Orientalist cinema

PHILIPPE MATHER

 

Crazy Rich Asians and pan-Asian screen cosmopolitanism

MARK GALLAGHER

 

Thematic Articles – Special Section on Korean Screen Cultures

 

Introduction to the Special Section on ‘Korean Screen Cultures’

MARK R. PLAICE

 

The Korean Wave celebrity and the birth of the K-drama conglomerate

HYUN GYUNG KIM

 

Performed intermediality and beyond in the BTS music video ‘Idol’: K-Pop idol identities in contemporary Hallyu

YEOGEUN YONSUE KIM

 

‘So, he is practically a Korean?’: Power relations and re-articulation of the Korean Self in the TV show Non-Summit

TANJA EYDAM

 

Domesticating gangsters? Home/work conflicts in South Korean family drama gangster film

MARK R. PLAICE

 

Interview

 

‘By introducing my culture to someone else, I learnt to understand it again somehow’: An interview with filmmaker Laha Mebow

CHRISTOPHER BROWN

 

Book Reviews

 

Imagining Taiwan: The Role of Art in Taiwan’s Quest for Identity (1987–2010), Sophie McIntyre (2018)

JENS DAMM

 

Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java,

Indonesia, Vannessa Hearman (2018)

DONG-YU DONNY LIN

 

Red, Autobiography of Ou Chaoquan, Ou Chaoquan (2019) (trans. D. Norman Geary)

YAN FEI