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  • Reckoning with the World

    South Korean Television and the Latin American Imaginary

    For many Koreans, Latin America is foreign and unfamiliar, but popular television shows have generated considerable interest in this region of the Global South. In Reckoning with the World, Benjamin Han explores this phenomenon by providing a close reading of Korean TV programs that take place, are shot in, or depict Latin America. These dramas, reality shows, and travel documentaries present ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Beyond Squid Game

    Korean Media and the Netflix Paradigm

    Examining Netflix’s global influence through its complex global-local dynamics in Korean media.Korea is a global entertainment powerhouse, thanks in no small part to Netflix. Analyzing the artistry and industry behind Netflix-produced Korean hits like Squid Game, The Glory, and Narco-Saints, Benjamin Han argues that Korea is ground zero for an emerging “Netflix Paradigm.” The US-based streaming ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Beyond the Black and White TV

    Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America

    This is the first book that examines how “ethnic spectacle” in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural Cold War at three historic junctures: the Korean War in 1950, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the statehood of Hawaii in 1959. As a means to strengthen U.S. internationalism and in an effort to combat the growing influence of communism, television ... Read more

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  • Korean Diaspora across the World

    Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality

    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This edited volume brings together a wide-ranging account of the Korean diaspora, focusing on how “homeland” is understood, invoked, and performed in everyday life and public culture.Spanning sites from Sakhalin and Japan to Chile, Kazakhstan, the United States, and Latin America, the contributors show how diasporic Koreans express belonging through family narratives, community life, and media, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Little Mermaid

    Benjamin Lacombe’s haunting illustrations alongside Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story of love and loss showcase the tale in an enchanting new lightFrench artist Benjamin Lacombe has created stunning, one-of-a-kind artwork to illustrate the pages of Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale about a young mermaid who makes a devastating deal with a sea witch and transforms into a human, only to ... Read more

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  • Applications of Quantum Dynamics in Chemistry

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book explains the usage and application of Molecular Quantum Dynamics, the methodology where both the electrons and the nuclei in a molecule are treated with quantum mechanical calculations. This volume of Lecture Notes in Chemistry addresses graduate students and postdocs in the field of theoretical chemistry, as well as postgraduate students, researchers and teachers from neighboring fields ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Tales from the Other Side

    Growing up Jewish in Nazi Germany

    This book is about a unique story of survival and preserving love. There are millions of stories from the destruction of Jewish life in Europe to be toldsadly, many never will. This story, as seen through the eyes of a boy, is about a family that remained in Germany and lived Jewish lives even during the worst times of Nazi rule. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia

    Race and Reception

    Edited by David C. Oh, Benjamin Min Han ...
    Showcases the dynamism of cross-cultural engagement with Korean mediaKorean media has exploded in popularity across the globe in the past decade: BTS and other K-pop groups have packed stadiums, Parasite garnered record-breaking critical success, The Masked Singer and Single’s Inferno became viral TV hits, and multiday KCON fan events have highlighted not only media but Korean food, cosmetics, and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

    South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Diasporic Hallyu

    The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

    by Kyong Yoon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular ... Read more

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  • The Korean Wave

    Korean Media Go Global

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context?This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD