Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia
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Book Description
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.
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A comprehensive book on the complex relationship between media and modernity in east Asia
Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia
Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia,Jenny Kwok Wah Lau,Temple University Press,1566399866,East Asia,Film & Video - General,Media Studies,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Popular culture
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