{"product_id":"tourist-distractions-9780822361305","title":"Tourist Distractions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTourist Distractions\u003c\/i\u003e Youngmin Choe uses Korean hallyu cinema as a lens to examine the importance of tourist films and film tourism in creating transnational bonds throughout East Asia and how they help Korea negotiate its twentieth-century history with the neoliberal present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Choe productively establishes a discussion that is relational rather than focused on bounded national contexts. She does terrific work in tying together solid and eminently useful historical context information and on-site research with close readings and more speculative, very insightful discussion. It is a balance that is difficult to achieve, but one that is especially rare in the study of popular culture from Korea.\" -- Alexander Zahlten * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Choe’s work is highly readable, inspiring, and absorbing. \u003ci\u003eTourist Distractions\u003c\/i\u003e also promises to be productive in the classroom. It will attract and distract hallyu fans in Korean studies and researchers with interests in tourism studies, visual and cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and film studies.\" -- Barbara Wall * Social History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Although an impressive amount of scholarship on Hallyu cinema has been published in the last decade, the transnational affect of Hallyu cinema through re-contextualizing it as audience emotions, tensions, and transnational self-reflections has not been the focus of critical attention. \u003ci\u003eTourist Distractions\u003c\/i\u003e fills this void in Korean film studies with a persuasive voice by establishing the transnational linkages of Hallyu to Japan, China, and North Korea since the early inception of the Hallyu boom.\" -- Yongwoo Lee * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a multilayered and elegant model, albeit one still under construction, that certainly suggests a much more contextually rich way to interpret the significant works of the Korean Wave; for that contribution alone Choe’s book should be considered a must-read.” -- Kyu Hyun Kim * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Enriching the oeuvre of Korean film scholarship with its theoretical rigor, \u003ci\u003eTourist Distractions\u003c\/i\u003e fills a critical gap in Hallyu studies by placing it in productive dialogue with Korean studies, tourism studies, film studies, cultural studies, and visual\/cultural anthropology.\" -- Haerin Shin * Journal of Korean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Distracted Attractions  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Feeling Together: Pornography and Travel in \u003ci\u003eKazoku Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAsako in Ruby Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e  31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Affective Sites: Hur Jin-ho's \u003ci\u003eApril Snow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Fine Spring Day\u003c\/i\u003e  59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Amity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Provisional Feelings: The Making of \u003ci\u003eMusa\u003c\/i\u003e  89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Affective Palimpsests: Sudden Showers from Hwang Sun-won's \"Sonagi\" to Kwak Jae-yong and Andrew Lau's \u003ci\u003eDaisy\u003c\/i\u003e  112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Remembrance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Postmemory DMZ: \u003ci\u003eJoint Security Area\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYesterday\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e2009 Lost Memories\u003c\/i\u003e  143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Transient Monuments: Commemmorating and Memorializing in \u003ci\u003eTaegukgi\u003c\/i\u003e Korean War Film Tourism  166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. K-hallyu: The Commodity Speaks in Kang Chul-woo's \u003ci\u003eRomantic Island\u003c\/i\u003e, Bae Yong-joon's \u003ci\u003eA Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, So Ji-sub's \u003ci\u003eRoad\u003c\/i\u003e, and Choi Ji-woo's \u003ci\u003eif\u003c\/i\u003e  197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  241","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406095524183,"sku":"9780822361305","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822361305.jpg?v=1730494510","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tourist-distractions-9780822361305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}