Stephen Epstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3786933 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Epstein |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Epstein |
| FIRMA | EPSTEIN S |
| AFILIACIONES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6587-2342 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations
This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations.Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key are…
Supplemental Material for How Normative Multiculturalism Relates to Immigrant Well-Being
How normative multiculturalism relates to immigrant well-being
The results are discussed in terms of everyday experiences of intercultural encounters, social norms and the contextual influences of diversity climates, as well as the importance of distinguishing the defining features of multiculturalism in diversity science research. We also propose that multicultural norm setting and norms marketing may lead to positive social and psychological outcomes for immigrants. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, …
Crash Landing on You and North Korea
Crash Landing on You (Sarang-ui bulsichak), a 16-episode drama on South Korean cable channel tvN in 2019-20 that was also released on Netflix, has drawn broad attention for its storyline featuring a South Korean heiress stranded in North Korea who falls in love with an elite military officer. Though the show invokes many formulae of South Korean dramas, it also offers a detailed portrait of North Korea, and, as such, is a crucial text for evaluat…
From South Korea to the Southern Hemisphere
Among the most salient global cultural phenomena of recent years has been the spread of Korean popular music, as exemplified not only by the viral success of Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ but in flash mob performances, social networking services, YouTube dance cover bands and international media coverage. What, taken in the aggregate, can instances of K-pop fandom (and equally importantly, its absences) in the southern hemisphere teach observers? In this…
Us and Them
PrécisThis article, intended as a companion to the recent documentary Us and Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World co-produced by Stephen Epstein and Timothy Tangheriini, situates Korean indie and punk rock within a broader context in order to demonstrate how what may seem a byway within Korean culture serves as a useful index of important recent societal transformations. As the nature of not only global media flows and musical circulation but…
Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop
Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop
Sports (transnationally) illustrated
Now On My Way to Meet Who? South Korean Television, North Korean Refugees, and the Dilemmas of Representation
In 2011, the recently established South Korean broadcasting network Channel-A launched Ije mannareo gamnida (Now on My Way to Meet You), a program whose format brings together a group of a dozen or more female talbukja (North Korean refugees) on a weekly basis. These women interact with host Nam Hui-seok, an additional female co-host (or, in the earlier episodes, two), and a panel composed of four male South Korean entertainers. Episodes typicall…
Multiple Exposures
Since the turn of the millennium, emphasis on bodily perfection has become increasingly central to the media industries of South Korea (henceforth Korea), and a focus on ideal bodies has permeated popular discourse more generally. Although views on physical appearance built on longstanding notions of its importance in announcing status continue to be informed by a patriarchal order, a palpably intensifying commodification of the body in Korea's m…
Korean Youth Netizenship and its Discontents
South Korea frequently is regarded as standing at the vanguard of the digital revolution, and its status as perhaps the world's most wired society makes it a fruitful case study for considering how digital culture may develop. South Korea's reputation rests in part on statistics that place it at the global forefront in terms of broadband penetration and internet speed – that is, its infrastructural ‘hardware’ – but it is equally in the cultural e…
The True Origins of Pizza
On September 30, 2011, an outfit named GumshoePictures uploaded on YouTube a video entitled "The True Origins of Pizza," which, in the format of a brief documentary (3:44), reminiscent of those seen on such stations as the Discovery Channel, investigates an apparent historical puzzle: a series of speakers, from academics to a blogger and a representative of the "Korean Culinary Center," are interviewed and advance evidence that pizza originated i…
L'axe du Mal », entre burlesque et carnaval
The Axis of Vaudeville : Images of North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture This paper examines how South Korean understanding of what it means to be-or to have been-a citizen of the DPRK has evolved during the last decade. How does South Korean popular culture reflect that evolution and, in turn, shape ongoing transformations in that understanding ? Is the South Korean imagination being enlarged to make room for an inclusive but heterogeneous ide…
The Axis of Vaudeville
This paper examines how South Korean understanding of what it means to be-or to have been-a citizen of the DPRK has evolved during the last decade. How does South Korean popular culture reflect that evolution and, in turn, shape ongoing transformations in that understanding? These questions have significant policy implications and take on a heightened salience given the recent deterioration in relations that has taken place under the Lee Myung Ba…
Skinheads of Korea, Tigers of the East
This photo-essay presents a journey into the musical underground of Seoul. It explores the intersections of patriotism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism in the Korean punk scene. Skinheads oscillate between reclusive nationalism and a more encompassing global outlook. Rather than resolving the ideological contradiction implied, in their music, lyrics as well as their provocative poses they refuse to be contained by a singular ideology. Instead,…
‘We Are The Punx in Korea’
The Education of Daphnis
D URING THE 1990S A TREND DEVELOPED in research on Daphnis and Chloe, with the novel's central focus on the nature of sexuality receiving renewed examination.1 One aspect of the text that has yet to receive full attention in this regard, however, is the careful manner in which it marks human sexuality through a series of parallels as well as oppositions among human, animal, and divine. How, for example, are we to view the reflections and refracti…
Becaaak
A Forgotten People
A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans. Directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson. 1995. 1/2 Video, Color. 59 min. Distributed by National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), 346 Ninth St., 2nd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94103. 16mm Film. $265. Video Rental: $75. Film Rental: $150. During final years of Korea's occupation by Japan, over 40,000 Koreans were sent-many forcibly conscripted-to work as laborers on southern Sakhalin Island, then …
Theocritus's urban mimes
Trekking on Tradition
Trekking on Tradition. 1993. Produced by Jennifer Rhodes. 45 min. 1/2 Video, Color. Distributed by University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center St., Berkeley, CA 94704. (510) 642-0460. $225. Rental: $65. Trekking on Tradition opens with a series of attractive still shots from the Annapurna region in central Nepal: magnificent landscapes, smiling children, Buddhist prayer wheels. But the ultimate value …
Elusive Narrators in Hwang Sun-wŏn
Hwang Sun-wŏn's elusive narrators force the reader to take an active role in shaping the meaning of his stories. The shifting viewpoint implicitly acknowledges that dogmatic interpretations are untenable. His short stories accommodate not only multiple speakers but, more important, multiple listeners. This tolerance for and interest in a variety of viewpoints is an important reason why Hwang has gained a place for himself among those Korean autho…
Wills and Wealth in Medieval Genoa, 1150-1250
Multiple Exposures
Since the turn of the millennium, emphasis on bodily perfection has become increasingly central to the media industries of South Korea (henceforth Korea), and a focus on ideal bodies has permeated popular discourse more generally. Although views on physical appearance built on longstanding notions of its importance in announcing status continue to be informed by a patriarchal order, a palpably intensifying commodification of the body in Korea's m…
How normative multiculturalism relates to immigrant well-being
The results are discussed in terms of everyday experiences of intercultural encounters, social norms and the contextual influences of diversity climates, as well as the importance of distinguishing the defining features of multiculturalism in diversity science research. We also propose that multicultural norm setting and norms marketing may lead to positive social and psychological outcomes for immigrants. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, …
Now On My Way to Meet Who? South Korean Television, North Korean Refugees, and the Dilemmas of Representation
In 2011, the recently established South Korean broadcasting network Channel-A launched Ije mannareo gamnida (Now on My Way to Meet You), a program whose format brings together a group of a dozen or more female talbukja (North Korean refugees) on a weekly basis. These women interact with host Nam Hui-seok, an additional female co-host (or, in the earlier episodes, two), and a panel composed of four male South Korean entertainers. Episodes typicall…
The Education of Daphnis
D URING THE 1990S A TREND DEVELOPED in research on Daphnis and Chloe, with the novel's central focus on the nature of sexuality receiving renewed examination.1 One aspect of the text that has yet to receive full attention in this regard, however, is the careful manner in which it marks human sexuality through a series of parallels as well as oppositions among human, animal, and divine. How, for example, are we to view the reflections and refracti…
Becaaak
Wills and Wealth in Medieval Genoa, 1150-1250
Elusive Narrators in Hwang Sun-wŏn
Hwang Sun-wŏn's elusive narrators force the reader to take an active role in shaping the meaning of his stories. The shifting viewpoint implicitly acknowledges that dogmatic interpretations are untenable. His short stories accommodate not only multiple speakers but, more important, multiple listeners. This tolerance for and interest in a variety of viewpoints is an important reason why Hwang has gained a place for himself among those Korean autho…
Theocritus's urban mimes
Trekking on Tradition
Trekking on Tradition. 1993. Produced by Jennifer Rhodes. 45 min. 1/2 Video, Color. Distributed by University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center St., Berkeley, CA 94704. (510) 642-0460. $225. Rental: $65. Trekking on Tradition opens with a series of attractive still shots from the Annapurna region in central Nepal: magnificent landscapes, smiling children, Buddhist prayer wheels. But the ultimate value …
A Forgotten People
A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans. Directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson. 1995. 1/2 Video, Color. 59 min. Distributed by National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), 346 Ninth St., 2nd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94103. 16mm Film. $265. Video Rental: $75. Film Rental: $150. During final years of Korea's occupation by Japan, over 40,000 Koreans were sent-many forcibly conscripted-to work as laborers on southern Sakhalin Island, then …
Becaaak
The Education of Daphnis
D URING THE 1990S A TREND DEVELOPED in research on Daphnis and Chloe, with the novel's central focus on the nature of sexuality receiving renewed examination.1 One aspect of the text that has yet to receive full attention in this regard, however, is the careful manner in which it marks human sexuality through a series of parallels as well as oppositions among human, animal, and divine. How, for example, are we to view the reflections and refracti…
‘We Are The Punx in Korea’
Skinheads of Korea, Tigers of the East
This photo-essay presents a journey into the musical underground of Seoul. It explores the intersections of patriotism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism in the Korean punk scene. Skinheads oscillate between reclusive nationalism and a more encompassing global outlook. Rather than resolving the ideological contradiction implied, in their music, lyrics as well as their provocative poses they refuse to be contained by a singular ideology. Instead,…
The Axis of Vaudeville
This paper examines how South Korean understanding of what it means to be-or to have been-a citizen of the DPRK has evolved during the last decade. How does South Korean popular culture reflect that evolution and, in turn, shape ongoing transformations in that understanding? These questions have significant policy implications and take on a heightened salience given the recent deterioration in relations that has taken place under the Lee Myung Ba…
L'axe du Mal », entre burlesque et carnaval
The Axis of Vaudeville : Images of North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture This paper examines how South Korean understanding of what it means to be-or to have been-a citizen of the DPRK has evolved during the last decade. How does South Korean popular culture reflect that evolution and, in turn, shape ongoing transformations in that understanding ? Is the South Korean imagination being enlarged to make room for an inclusive but heterogeneous ide…
Korean Youth Netizenship and its Discontents
South Korea frequently is regarded as standing at the vanguard of the digital revolution, and its status as perhaps the world's most wired society makes it a fruitful case study for considering how digital culture may develop. South Korea's reputation rests in part on statistics that place it at the global forefront in terms of broadband penetration and internet speed – that is, its infrastructural ‘hardware’ – but it is equally in the cultural e…
The True Origins of Pizza
On September 30, 2011, an outfit named GumshoePictures uploaded on YouTube a video entitled "The True Origins of Pizza," which, in the format of a brief documentary (3:44), reminiscent of those seen on such stations as the Discovery Channel, investigates an apparent historical puzzle: a series of speakers, from academics to a blogger and a representative of the "Korean Culinary Center," are interviewed and advance evidence that pizza originated i…
Multiple Exposures
Since the turn of the millennium, emphasis on bodily perfection has become increasingly central to the media industries of South Korea (henceforth Korea), and a focus on ideal bodies has permeated popular discourse more generally. Although views on physical appearance built on longstanding notions of its importance in announcing status continue to be informed by a patriarchal order, a palpably intensifying commodification of the body in Korea's m…
Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop
Sports (transnationally) illustrated
Now On My Way to Meet Who? South Korean Television, North Korean Refugees, and the Dilemmas of Representation
In 2011, the recently established South Korean broadcasting network Channel-A launched Ije mannareo gamnida (Now on My Way to Meet You), a program whose format brings together a group of a dozen or more female talbukja (North Korean refugees) on a weekly basis. These women interact with host Nam Hui-seok, an additional female co-host (or, in the earlier episodes, two), and a panel composed of four male South Korean entertainers. Episodes typicall…
Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop
Us and Them
PrécisThis article, intended as a companion to the recent documentary Us and Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World co-produced by Stephen Epstein and Timothy Tangheriini, situates Korean indie and punk rock within a broader context in order to demonstrate how what may seem a byway within Korean culture serves as a useful index of important recent societal transformations. As the nature of not only global media flows and musical circulation but…
From South Korea to the Southern Hemisphere
Among the most salient global cultural phenomena of recent years has been the spread of Korean popular music, as exemplified not only by the viral success of Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ but in flash mob performances, social networking services, YouTube dance cover bands and international media coverage. What, taken in the aggregate, can instances of K-pop fandom (and equally importantly, its absences) in the southern hemisphere teach observers? In this…
Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations
This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations.Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key are…
Supplemental Material for How Normative Multiculturalism Relates to Immigrant Well-Being
How normative multiculturalism relates to immigrant well-being
The results are discussed in terms of everyday experiences of intercultural encounters, social norms and the contextual influences of diversity climates, as well as the importance of distinguishing the defining features of multiculturalism in diversity science research. We also propose that multicultural norm setting and norms marketing may lead to positive social and psychological outcomes for immigrants. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, …
Crash Landing on You and North Korea
Crash Landing on You (Sarang-ui bulsichak), a 16-episode drama on South Korean cable channel tvN in 2019-20 that was also released on Netflix, has drawn broad attention for its storyline featuring a South Korean heiress stranded in North Korea who falls in love with an elite military officer. Though the show invokes many formulae of South Korean dramas, it also offers a detailed portrait of North Korea, and, as such, is a crucial text for evaluat…
Political science (16 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (15 obras) · History (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Art (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (6 obras) · Media studies (6 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)