Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East AsiaJenny Kwok Wah Lau Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examines popular culture - most notable cinema and television - to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and as a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each essay focuses on specific nations or cinemas, the collected effect of reading them is to offer a comprehensive, in-depth picture of how popular culture in East Asia operates to both generate and reflect the immense change this significant region of the world is undergoing. Contributors include: Jeroen de Kloet, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Yomota Inuhiko, Frances Gateward, Hector Rodriguez, Dai Jaihua, David Desser, August Palmer, Lu Szu-Ping and the editor. |
Contents
Discourse on Modernization in 1990s Korean Cinema | 90 |
National and Cultural Identity | 114 |
Alternative Arts | 128 |
Chinese and Japanese Popular Culture | 179 |
The Performance | 203 |
About the Contributors | 239 |
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