Pop city Korean popular culture and the selling of place

'Pop City' examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture-featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Oh, Youjeong, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2021.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Cornell scholarship online.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422005206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. THE SPECULATIVE PRODUCTION OF DRAMAS AND DRAMA SITES
  • Introduction
  • 1. Speculative Producers: The Production of Korean Drama
  • 2. Spectacular Places: Drama-Filming Sites
  • PART II. THE AFFECTIVE CONSUMPTION OF K-POP IDOLS AND PLACES
  • Introduction
  • 3. Image Producers: The (Re)Production of K-Pop Idols
  • 4. K-Star Road: Making Gangnam into a K-Pop– Filled Place
  • 5. Cosme Road: K-Beauty and the Globalization of Myeong-dong
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Reference List
  • Index