Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2020), 241 pp.
Contains index
Series: Global Media and Race
ISBN 978-1-9788-0414-2 (ebook); 978-1-9788-0413-5 (print)
"Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world's population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values and how they influence media consumption and production throughout Asia, including: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran and many others. The book's contributors are especially interested in investigating media and their intersections with narrative, medium, technologies, and culture through the lenses that are particularly Asian by turning to Asian socio-political and cultural milieus as the meaningful interpretive framework to understand media." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Hyesu Park and Maya Dodd, 1
PART I: TRANSNATIONAL APPROACH
1 Converging on love and indifference: mediated otherness in South and East Asia / Rea Amit, 17
2 The child bride: unpacking the popularity of the Indian television show Balika vadhu in Vietnam / Shubhda Arora and Juhi Jotwani, 37
3 Star construction in the era of media convergence: pro-am online videos, co-creative culture, and transnational Chinese icons on YouTube / Dorothy Wai Sim Lau, 54
4 Screen to screen: adaptation and transnational circulation of Chinese (web) novels for television / W. Michelle Wang, 72
5 Rhetorical liminality in Southeast Asian media representations of human trafficking / John Gagnon, 94
6 Addressing transnational legacies of colonialism in East Asia: cases from contemporary Japanese art / Hiroki Yamamoto, 108
PART II: SINGLE-NATION APPROACH
7 Media, narrative, and culture: narrativizing and contextualizing Korean mukbang shows / Hyesu Park, 129
8 Construction, consumption, and representation of white supremacy in Sri Lankan advertisements: living white while being non-white / Asantha U. Attanayake, 148
9 A liminal Bengali identity: film culture in Bangladesh / Sabiha Huq, 162
10 Screening Southeast Asia: film, politics, and the emergence of the nation in postwar Southeast Asia / Darlene Machell de Leon Espena, 180
11 Afghan media and culture in transition / Alireza Dehghan, 198
12 A semiotic analysis of symbolic actions of Iranian Instagram users / Hamid Abdollahyan and Hoornaz Keshavarzian, 214
PART I: TRANSNATIONAL APPROACH
1 Converging on love and indifference: mediated otherness in South and East Asia / Rea Amit, 17
2 The child bride: unpacking the popularity of the Indian television show Balika vadhu in Vietnam / Shubhda Arora and Juhi Jotwani, 37
3 Star construction in the era of media convergence: pro-am online videos, co-creative culture, and transnational Chinese icons on YouTube / Dorothy Wai Sim Lau, 54
4 Screen to screen: adaptation and transnational circulation of Chinese (web) novels for television / W. Michelle Wang, 72
5 Rhetorical liminality in Southeast Asian media representations of human trafficking / John Gagnon, 94
6 Addressing transnational legacies of colonialism in East Asia: cases from contemporary Japanese art / Hiroki Yamamoto, 108
PART II: SINGLE-NATION APPROACH
7 Media, narrative, and culture: narrativizing and contextualizing Korean mukbang shows / Hyesu Park, 129
8 Construction, consumption, and representation of white supremacy in Sri Lankan advertisements: living white while being non-white / Asantha U. Attanayake, 148
9 A liminal Bengali identity: film culture in Bangladesh / Sabiha Huq, 162
10 Screening Southeast Asia: film, politics, and the emergence of the nation in postwar Southeast Asia / Darlene Machell de Leon Espena, 180
11 Afghan media and culture in transition / Alireza Dehghan, 198
12 A semiotic analysis of symbolic actions of Iranian Instagram users / Hamid Abdollahyan and Hoornaz Keshavarzian, 214
