Pop Culture Formations Across East Asia

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors and Contributors

Introduction: Problematizing the Pop Culture Formations in East Asia

Part 1. Media Consumption in Asia and Identity Politics

TV Drama Consumption in South Korea: Focusing on My Name is Kim Sam-Soon…Young-Hee Chung

Love and Islam in Two Indonesian Films…Hyung-Jun Kim

Polygamy and Islam in Indonesian Films: Discourses of female(companion)s of polygamous males in Indonesian urban Islamicsociety & culture…Rachmah Ida

Contesting 'Nation': Renegotiating Identity and Multiculturalism in the New Malaysian Cinema…Zawawi Ibrahim

Part 2. Nation-States and Media Transnationalization

Whither the Korean Media?…Doobo Shim

Trends and Effects of the Korean Wave…Jeongmin Ko

The Culture Industry and Asianization: The new 'imagined' inter-Asia economy…Ubonrat Siriyuvasak

"Symbolic Migrant Workers": Southeast Asian artistes in the East Asian entertainment Industry…Liew Kai Khiun

Part 3. Cross-border Consumption of Regional and Global Cultural content and the Question of 'new' Identity Formation

The Look of Love: New engagements with the oriental in Indonesian popular culture…Ariel Heryanto

Expansion of U.S. Sport in South Korea: From globalizing to localizing U.S. sport entertainment…Younghan Cho

Filipina Vocalists on the Live bar Stage in South Korea: Positioning between 'musician' and 'entertainer'…Minjung Kim

Feudal Spectres on Philippine Television: Global soaps and the resuscitation of the colonial imaginary…Joseph T. Salazar

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