Description
Book SynopsisBrings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the ‘other’, taking into account the nation’s postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated construction of self.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- David C. Oh
- Part 1: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other
- Chapter 1: Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men
- Min Joo Lee
- Chapter 2: Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television
- Benjamin Han
- Chapter 3: Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Survival Audition Program in South Korea
- Ji-Hyun Ahn
- Chapter 4: Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: In South Korean films Rosa and Thuy
- Eunbi Lee and Colby Miyose
- Chapter 5: Two Sides of the ‘Other’: Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
- Russell Edwards
- Part 2: Mediating the Co-Ethnic Other
- Chapter 6: “Truth? No One Cares About the Truth”: On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady
- Myoung-Sun Song
- Chapter 7: Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions
- Miseong Woo
- Chapter 8: Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea(ns) in Hallyu Films
- JongHwa Lee
- Chapter 9: Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in a South Korean Documentary Film “Uri-Hakkyo”
- Min Wha Han
- Chapter 10: The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-pop Star
- Alice N. Kim and Sherry S. Yu
- Conclusion
- David C. Oh
- Contributors
- Index
