Popular culture in Asia memory, city, celebrity / edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons, Associate Professor of Humanities, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, and John A. Lent, independent scholar.

Other author Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957-
Other author Lent, John A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Descriptionix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction / Lorna Fitzsimmons -- Memory. Engaging the Valley of Death: The Dialogue with Modernity in The Burmese Harp / Lorna Fitzsimmons -- National Allegory, Modernization, and the Cinematic Patrimony of the Marcos Regime / Talitha Espiritu -- Censorship and the Unfinished Past: Political Satire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Sueyoung Park-Primiano -- City. Modernizing the Urban Landscape: Architecture and the Internationalized Face of Asia / Ian Morley -- Romancing Urban Modernity in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai: The Film About Love and the Shaping of a Discursive East Asian Popular Culture / Romit Dasgupta -- Imagining Modernity in Contemporary Malaysia: Non-Western Soap Opera and the Negative Urban Morality / Azizah Hamzah and Md Azalanshah Md Syed -- Celebrity. Gender Reconstruction in Post-Mao Urban China: The Interplay between Modernity and Popular Culture / Hong Zhang -- Beyond the "Fragile Woman": Identity, Modernity, and Musical Gay Icons in Overseas Chinese Communities / Shzr Ee Tan -- Jay Chou's Music and the Shaping of Popular Culture in China / Wei-Hsin Lin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012048100
ISBN9781137270191

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