Format:
Online-Ressource (XVII, 231 p. 12 illus. in color, online resource)
ISBN:
9783319657745
Series Statement:
East Asian Popular Culture
Content:
This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. It explores the moments of ruptures and disjuncture that biracial bodies bring to the formation of neoliberal multiculturalism, a South Korean national racial project that re-aligns racial lines under the nation’s neoliberal transformation. Specifically, Ji-Hyun Ahn examines four televised racial moments that demonstrate particular aspects of neoliberal multiculturalism by demanding distinct ways of re-imagining what it means to be Korean in the contemporary era of globalization. Taking a critical media/cultural studies approach, Ahn engages with materials from archives, the popular press, policy documents, television commercials, and television programs as an inter-textual network that actively negotiates and formulates a new racialized national identity. In doing so, the book provides a rich analysis of the ongoing struggle over racial reconfiguration in South Korean popular media, advancing an emerging scholarly discussion on race as a leading factor of social change in South Korea
Content:
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The New Face of Korea -- Chapter 3. From National Threat to National Hero -- Chapter 4. Consuming Cosmopolitan White(ness) -- Chapter 5. Televising the Making of Neoliberal Multicultural Family -- Chapter 6. This is (Not) Our Multicultural Future
Additional Edition:
9783319657738
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-3-319-65773-8
Additional Edition:
Printed edition 9783319657738
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-65774-5
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