| Contents |
Short history of K-pop, K-cinema, and K-television -- The souls of Korean folk in the era of hip-hop -- Dividuated cinema : temporality and body in the overwired age -- Running man : the Korean television variety program and the transnational affect Confucianism -- The virtual feast : mukbang, con-man comedy, and the post-traumatic family in Extreme job (2019) and Parasite (2019) -- Korean meme-icry : Samsung and K-pop -- Reading Muhan Dojeon through the Madangg̐uuk. |
| Abstract |
"In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hallyu-from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaption of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture has upended the familiar dynamic of major-to-minor cultural influence, enabling hallyu to become a dominant global cultural phenomenon. At the same time, its worldwide popularity has rendered its Korean-ness opaque. Kim argues that Korean cultural subjectivity over the past two decades, is one steeped in ethnic rather than national identity. Explaining how South Korea leapt over the linguistic and cultural walls surrounding a supposedly "minor" culture to achieve global ascendance, Kim positions K-pop, Korean cinema and television serials, and even electronics as transformative acts of reappropriation that have created a hegemonic global ethnic identity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969- Hegemonic mimicry. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478021803 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021000875 |
| ISBN | 9781478014492 |
| ISBN | 9781478013587 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478013583 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478014490 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
