StoryAlity#136 – Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania (2016)

So in August 2016, this book was published.

I have 5 x chapters in it:

Popular Albums, Australia (pp. 41-5)

Popular Novels, Australia (pp. 108-11)

Popular Movies, Australia (pp. 175-8)

Popular Transmedia, Australia (pp. 254-7)

Popular Video Games, Australia and New Zealand (pp. 340-3)

Description (from publisher’s webpage)

Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania

Thanks to the popularity of songs like “Gangnam Style” and Bollywood cinema, Asian pop culture is becoming mainstream in America.

This ready reference is a comprehensive guide to pop culture in Asia and Oceania, including topics such as top Korean singers, Thailand’s sports heroes, and Japanese fashion.

This entertaining introduction to Asian pop culture covers the global superstars, music idols, blockbuster films, and current trends—from the eclectic to the underground—of East Asia and South Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan, as well as Oceania. The rich content features an exploration of the politics and personalities of Bollywood, a look at how baseball became a huge phenomenon in Taiwan and Japan, the ways in which censorship affects social media use in these regions, and the influence of the United States on the movies, music, and Internet in Asia.

Topics include contemporary literature, movies, television and radio, the Internet, sports, video games, and fashion. Brief overviews of each topic precede entries featuring key musicians, songs, published works, actors and actresses, popular websites, top athletes, video games, and clothing fads and designers. The book also contains top-ten lists, a chronology of pop culture events, and a bibliography. Sidebars throughout the text provide additional anecdotal information.

Features

Supports the National Geography Standards by examining cultural mosaics and the globalization of cultural change
Connects popular culture to many disciplines, including anthropology, history, literature, film studies, political science, and sociology
Allows for cross-cultural comparisons between pop culture in the United States and Asia
Focuses on East Asia and South Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan, among other countries
Features a detailed introduction with important contextual information about pop culture in Asia and an extensive chronology

See also, the publisher’s webpage for:

Murray, J. A., & Nadeau, K. M. (Eds.). (2016). Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

…Well; if you like that sort of thing.

i.e., I hear it’s… um…`popular’ stuff…

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JT Velikovsky

High-RoI Story/Screenplay/Movie & Transmedia Researcher

& Evolutionary Systems Theorist

& Transmedia Writer-Director-Producer: Movies, Games, TV, Theatre, Books, Comics

Some of the above is (mostly) an adapted excerpt, from my doctoral thesis: “Communication, Creativity and Consilience in Cinema”. It is presented here for the benefit of fellow screenwriting, filmmaking and creativity researchers. For more, see https://aftrs.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky

JT Velikovsky is also a produced feature film screenwriter and million-selling transmedia writer-director-producer. He has been a professional story analyst for major film studios, film funding organizations, and for the national writer’s guild. For more see: http://on-writering.blogspot.com/

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