Popular culture
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This wide-ranging volume is the first to examine the characteristics, dynamics and wider implications of recently emerging regional production, dissemination, marketing and consumption systems of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia. Using tools based in a variety of disciplines - organizational analysis and sociology, cultural and media studies, and political science and history - it elucidates the underlying cultural economics and the processes of region-wide appropriation of cultural formulas and styles.

Through discussions of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Philippine and Indonesian culture industries, the authors in the book describe a major shift in Asia's popular culture markets toward arrangements that transcend autonomous national economies by organizing and locating production, distribution, and consumption of cultural goods on a regional scale. Specifically, the authors deal with patterns of co-production and collaboration in the making and marketing of cultural commodities such as movies, music, comics, and animation.

The book uses case studies to explore the production and exploitation of cultural imaginaries within the context of intensive regional circulation of cultural commodities and images. Drawing on empirically-based accounts of co-production and collaboration in East and Southeast Asia's popular culture, it adopts a regional framework to analyze the complex interrelationships among cultural industries. This focus on a regional economy of transcultural production provides an important corrective to the limitations of previous studies that consider cultural products as text and use them to investigate the "meaning" of popular culture.

Nissim Otmazgin   Eyal Ben-ari                    
ISBN: 978-9971-69-600-9
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Publication date: 1 October 2012

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Author:   Blouin, Michael J.                   
ISBN: 978 1 137 30521 3
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Publication date: 18 April 2013

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Editors:   Link, Perry  Madsen, Richard P.  Pickowicz, Paul G.               
ISBN: 978 1 4422 1511 5
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Pages: 296
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Publication date: 16 April 2013

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Author   Ian Condry                   
ISBN: 978-0-8223-5394-2
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Pages: 242
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Editors:   Lent, John A.  Fitzsimmons, Lorna                 
ISBN: 978 0 7391 7961 1
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Editors:   Kloet, Jeroen de  Scheen, Lena                 
ISBN: 978 90 485 1702 2
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Authors:   Maki  Johnson, Geoffrey                 
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Author:   Wang, Jian                   
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Publication date: 10 October 2012

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Editors:   Galbraith, Patrick  Karlin, Jason                 
ISBN: 978 0 230 29830 9
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Pages: 242
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Publication date: 21 September 2012

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Author:   Chua, Beng-Huat                   
ISBN: 978 988 8139 04 0
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