Keith B Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 228842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith B Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith B |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sungshin Women's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3238-7521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Steve McQueen’s Year 3 as anti-Brexit art
Citizenship, migration and urban belonging in mega-cities are infrequently discussed in relation to young members of society. When visually staged to reflect a rescaling of multicultural membership and optimism for the future, the classroom and its young learners become a testing ground for interculturalism. In Steve McQueen’s Year 3 photography installation at the Tate Britain in 2019, London school classrooms and its 7 and 8-year-old pupils rai…
Bae Doona and Yi So-yeon as Korean-cosmopolitan celebrities
This article explores what elevates the actress Bae Doona and astronaut Yi So-yeon to the level of ‘Korean-cosmopolitan celebrities.’ Our contradictory but efficacious coinage recognizes their Koreanness and outstanding achievements on behalf of different industries – with work in film and aerospace – yet such identity and cultural position are rare in South Korea because it showcases the value and necessity of humanitarian activities that resist…
The World Health Organization in Contagion (2011) and World War Z (2013)
Understanding microorganisms and the havoc they cause requires exceptional creativity. Today, disease outbreaks and infections are largely understood through media narratives and their accompanying imagery. This article focuses on the World Health Organization (WHO) and its complex infrastructure via decentralization as depicted in two Hollywood films, Contagion (2011) and World War Z (2013). Reframing these contemporary blockbuster films as pand…
American globalization and hippie modernism at Earth Day in 1970
Deglobalisation, the SK Broadband Lawsuit and Netflixisation as Stabilising/Destabilising Forces for South Korean Streaming Services
Seaports as criminal gateways in contemporary South Korean cinema
This article examines the seaport as a trope in contemporary cinema in relation to notions of spatiality, illicit globalization, and border studies. We analyze how seaports as social and cultural networks of built environment and infrastructure have become gateways to illicit globalization. We then provide a critical analysis that unbundles these spaces in the film genre of neo-noir out of South Korea. Our focus then zooms in on real organized cr…
Global cinema in an era of deglobalization
Deglobalization has arrived as a symptom of globalization's overextendedness. Organized through policies and thought practices that take ideological, economic, and cultural forms as significant to the homeland — these deglobalist agendas which accord a worldwide phenomenon since the 2010s – are implemented via a decoupling from cosmopolitan outlooks, multilateral trade deals and even cross-cultural and intercultural exchanges in media. This artic…
Fantastical infrastructure imagining
This study is prompted by two of the most famous Hollywood blockbusters set above and below the ocean—The Abyss (1989) and Waterworld (1995). These films tell us something about catastrophic environmental degradation as much as they point us to the cultural power that is embedded in deep-sea structures and vehicles: the underwater drilling platform, built-up steampunk atolls and submersibles. The continuation of this fantastical infrastructure im…
TikTok and its mediatic split
TikTok has ousted Google as the world’s favorite online destination in 2021. As China’s first emergent social media app making its mark across the Global North and South, it has prompted a shift in our global mediascape. Following in the footsteps of YouTube and Instagram after it, TikTok is facilitating new identities through User-Generated Content (UGC) while challenging the hegemony of American-led platform culture. UGC analyzed in this articl…
Love and Producer as East Asian Transmedia
Photographic and cinematic appropriation of atrocity images from Cambodia
As a harrowing sub-discipline of English and Comparative Literature, Trauma Studies is in need of geographical expansion beyond its moorings in European genocides of the 20th century. In this article, the authors chart the institutional and cinematic appropriation of atrocity images in relation to the Khmer Rouge’s auto-genocide from 1975–1979 in Cambodia. They analyse the cultural and scholarly value of these images in conjunction with genocide …
Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012)
Research Article| May 01 2018 Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012) Keith B. Wagner Keith B. Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 164-167. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355293 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Keith B. Wagner; Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012). Radical History Review 1 …
The Significance of Beyond Hallyu Film and Television Content in South Korea's Mediasphere
Korea.net, “the official website of the Republic of Korea” provided by the Korean Culture and Information Service as an arm of the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, defines Hallyu as
Endorsing upper-class refinement or critiquing extravagance and debt? The rise of neoliberal genre modification in contemporary South Korean cinema
Several socio-cultural outcomes of an elite nature are now attributable to neoliberalism and its various national incarnations: increased wealth concentration, debt of an extravagant nature, elevated status and the emulation of older aristocratic behaviour. This is unique to neoliberalism largely because of global media's endorsements of such upper-class lifestyles found in advertising, television and now cinema. In this article, my analysis of n…
Beyond Hallyu
The dominance of English language work on Hallyu reveals the extent to which it needs to be considered as “multi-layered and multi-directional,” given that it creates so many socio-cultural contacts that take “place across, beyond, and outside national and institutional boundaries." While Hallyu products, through various approved “productive, distributive and cultural processes” have become at the very least “a semi-global phenomenon,” beyond Hal…
District 9, race and neoliberalism in post-apartheid Johannesburg
District 9 is a sci-fi film, ostensibly concerned with the arrival of extraterrestrials in Johannesburg, that explores notions of regulatory control and economic supremacy in twenty-first century neoliberal South Africa. This commentary and political resonance are found beneath, and also work with the action and CGI special effects. This essay attempts to identify many real world features as allegories within the film: post-apartheid racism, econ…
China’s iGeneration
This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of cinema. Following China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing soci…
Globalizing Discourses
Globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon. In pinpointing its contemporary meaning, however, globalization can be thought of as inseparable from the intricate and varied prisms of a neoliberal plurality—the ‘neoliberalisms’ of the world. For, even in a world dominated by economic volatility, both neoliberalism and globalization have been shown to transcend ethnic borders, lines of communication, and languages by bringing commerce and culture cl…
Historicizing labor cinema
Workers of all stripes and colors comprise a large and often forgotten segment of cinema history. This essay historicizes several key films and genres associated with early cinema, with an emphasis on pre-Great War French and American cinemas. Simultaneously, this essay formulates several critical responses to labor practices as globally understood and thus anchors this recovery of cinematized working classes, still an ongoing but marginal projec…
Jia Zhangke's neoliberal China
This article explores the under-theorized subject of migrant labor and its precarious socio-economic position envisaged by Jia Zhangke in his The World (Shijie, 2004). As discussions of this film have largely been reduced to broad assertions in their handling of developmental adjustments—mainly, the country's entry into the WTO in 2001 and the reality of globalization—the specificities that mark Beijing's continuous and unfettered modernization p…
Transnational Adoption in Korean Cinema
This article presents one of the first critical historiographies of adoption films in Korean cinema from the Golden Age to New Korean Cinema. Guided by the work of Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Benita Parry, Kyung Hyun Kim and Tobias Hübinette, the authors show how the portrayal of transnational adoption practices and of adoptees in Korean cinema is fraught with cultural antagonisms – between the adoptees' agency and their lost bloodlines, hierarchica…
Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
Committed to exposing the ways in which the personal is always crosshatched with the social and the political, Filipino filmmaker Jeffrey Jeturian’s traces the relentless conversion of all forms of social experience into economic transactions. Whether in Pila Balde [Fetch a Pail of Water]) or Kubrador [Bet Collector], 2006) Jeturian’s films thematize the neoliberal transformation of social individuals into calculative entrepreneur-consumers. This…
The Neo-liberal Auteur
Beyond Hallyu
The dominance of English language work on Hallyu reveals the extent to which it needs to be considered as “multi-layered and multi-directional,” given that it creates so many socio-cultural contacts that take “place across, beyond, and outside national and institutional boundaries." While Hallyu products, through various approved “productive, distributive and cultural processes” have become at the very least “a semi-global phenomenon,” beyond Hal…
Endorsing upper-class refinement or critiquing extravagance and debt? The rise of neoliberal genre modification in contemporary South Korean cinema
Several socio-cultural outcomes of an elite nature are now attributable to neoliberalism and its various national incarnations: increased wealth concentration, debt of an extravagant nature, elevated status and the emulation of older aristocratic behaviour. This is unique to neoliberalism largely because of global media's endorsements of such upper-class lifestyles found in advertising, television and now cinema. In this article, my analysis of n…
Global cinema in an era of deglobalization
Deglobalization has arrived as a symptom of globalization's overextendedness. Organized through policies and thought practices that take ideological, economic, and cultural forms as significant to the homeland — these deglobalist agendas which accord a worldwide phenomenon since the 2010s – are implemented via a decoupling from cosmopolitan outlooks, multilateral trade deals and even cross-cultural and intercultural exchanges in media. This artic…
Fantastical infrastructure imagining
This study is prompted by two of the most famous Hollywood blockbusters set above and below the ocean—The Abyss (1989) and Waterworld (1995). These films tell us something about catastrophic environmental degradation as much as they point us to the cultural power that is embedded in deep-sea structures and vehicles: the underwater drilling platform, built-up steampunk atolls and submersibles. The continuation of this fantastical infrastructure im…
TikTok and its mediatic split
TikTok has ousted Google as the world’s favorite online destination in 2021. As China’s first emergent social media app making its mark across the Global North and South, it has prompted a shift in our global mediascape. Following in the footsteps of YouTube and Instagram after it, TikTok is facilitating new identities through User-Generated Content (UGC) while challenging the hegemony of American-led platform culture. UGC analyzed in this articl…
Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012)
Research Article| May 01 2018 Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012) Keith B. Wagner Keith B. Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 164-167. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355293 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Keith B. Wagner; Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012). Radical History Review 1 …
District 9, race and neoliberalism in post-apartheid Johannesburg
District 9 is a sci-fi film, ostensibly concerned with the arrival of extraterrestrials in Johannesburg, that explores notions of regulatory control and economic supremacy in twenty-first century neoliberal South Africa. This commentary and political resonance are found beneath, and also work with the action and CGI special effects. This essay attempts to identify many real world features as allegories within the film: post-apartheid racism, econ…
Globalizing Discourses
Globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon. In pinpointing its contemporary meaning, however, globalization can be thought of as inseparable from the intricate and varied prisms of a neoliberal plurality—the ‘neoliberalisms’ of the world. For, even in a world dominated by economic volatility, both neoliberalism and globalization have been shown to transcend ethnic borders, lines of communication, and languages by bringing commerce and culture cl…
Historicizing labor cinema
Workers of all stripes and colors comprise a large and often forgotten segment of cinema history. This essay historicizes several key films and genres associated with early cinema, with an emphasis on pre-Great War French and American cinemas. Simultaneously, this essay formulates several critical responses to labor practices as globally understood and thus anchors this recovery of cinematized working classes, still an ongoing but marginal projec…
Jia Zhangke's neoliberal China
This article explores the under-theorized subject of migrant labor and its precarious socio-economic position envisaged by Jia Zhangke in his The World (Shijie, 2004). As discussions of this film have largely been reduced to broad assertions in their handling of developmental adjustments—mainly, the country's entry into the WTO in 2001 and the reality of globalization—the specificities that mark Beijing's continuous and unfettered modernization p…
The Neo-liberal Auteur
Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
Committed to exposing the ways in which the personal is always crosshatched with the social and the political, Filipino filmmaker Jeffrey Jeturian’s traces the relentless conversion of all forms of social experience into economic transactions. Whether in Pila Balde [Fetch a Pail of Water]) or Kubrador [Bet Collector], 2006) Jeturian’s films thematize the neoliberal transformation of social individuals into calculative entrepreneur-consumers. This…
Jia Zhangke's neoliberal China
This article explores the under-theorized subject of migrant labor and its precarious socio-economic position envisaged by Jia Zhangke in his The World (Shijie, 2004). As discussions of this film have largely been reduced to broad assertions in their handling of developmental adjustments—mainly, the country's entry into the WTO in 2001 and the reality of globalization—the specificities that mark Beijing's continuous and unfettered modernization p…
Transnational Adoption in Korean Cinema
This article presents one of the first critical historiographies of adoption films in Korean cinema from the Golden Age to New Korean Cinema. Guided by the work of Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Benita Parry, Kyung Hyun Kim and Tobias Hübinette, the authors show how the portrayal of transnational adoption practices and of adoptees in Korean cinema is fraught with cultural antagonisms – between the adoptees' agency and their lost bloodlines, hierarchica…
China’s iGeneration
This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving image culture features contributions from an international community of scholars, critics, and practitioners. Taken together, their perspectives make a compelling case that the past decade has witnessed a radical transformation of conventional notions of cinema. Following China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing soci…
Globalizing Discourses
Globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon. In pinpointing its contemporary meaning, however, globalization can be thought of as inseparable from the intricate and varied prisms of a neoliberal plurality—the ‘neoliberalisms’ of the world. For, even in a world dominated by economic volatility, both neoliberalism and globalization have been shown to transcend ethnic borders, lines of communication, and languages by bringing commerce and culture cl…
Historicizing labor cinema
Workers of all stripes and colors comprise a large and often forgotten segment of cinema history. This essay historicizes several key films and genres associated with early cinema, with an emphasis on pre-Great War French and American cinemas. Simultaneously, this essay formulates several critical responses to labor practices as globally understood and thus anchors this recovery of cinematized working classes, still an ongoing but marginal projec…
District 9, race and neoliberalism in post-apartheid Johannesburg
District 9 is a sci-fi film, ostensibly concerned with the arrival of extraterrestrials in Johannesburg, that explores notions of regulatory control and economic supremacy in twenty-first century neoliberal South Africa. This commentary and political resonance are found beneath, and also work with the action and CGI special effects. This essay attempts to identify many real world features as allegories within the film: post-apartheid racism, econ…
The Significance of Beyond Hallyu Film and Television Content in South Korea's Mediasphere
Korea.net, “the official website of the Republic of Korea” provided by the Korean Culture and Information Service as an arm of the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, defines Hallyu as
Endorsing upper-class refinement or critiquing extravagance and debt? The rise of neoliberal genre modification in contemporary South Korean cinema
Several socio-cultural outcomes of an elite nature are now attributable to neoliberalism and its various national incarnations: increased wealth concentration, debt of an extravagant nature, elevated status and the emulation of older aristocratic behaviour. This is unique to neoliberalism largely because of global media's endorsements of such upper-class lifestyles found in advertising, television and now cinema. In this article, my analysis of n…
Beyond Hallyu
The dominance of English language work on Hallyu reveals the extent to which it needs to be considered as “multi-layered and multi-directional,” given that it creates so many socio-cultural contacts that take “place across, beyond, and outside national and institutional boundaries." While Hallyu products, through various approved “productive, distributive and cultural processes” have become at the very least “a semi-global phenomenon,” beyond Hal…
Photographic and cinematic appropriation of atrocity images from Cambodia
As a harrowing sub-discipline of English and Comparative Literature, Trauma Studies is in need of geographical expansion beyond its moorings in European genocides of the 20th century. In this article, the authors chart the institutional and cinematic appropriation of atrocity images in relation to the Khmer Rouge’s auto-genocide from 1975–1979 in Cambodia. They analyse the cultural and scholarly value of these images in conjunction with genocide …
Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012)
Research Article| May 01 2018 Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012) Keith B. Wagner Keith B. Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 164-167. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355293 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Keith B. Wagner; Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012). Radical History Review 1 …
Love and Producer as East Asian Transmedia
Global cinema in an era of deglobalization
Deglobalization has arrived as a symptom of globalization's overextendedness. Organized through policies and thought practices that take ideological, economic, and cultural forms as significant to the homeland — these deglobalist agendas which accord a worldwide phenomenon since the 2010s – are implemented via a decoupling from cosmopolitan outlooks, multilateral trade deals and even cross-cultural and intercultural exchanges in media. This artic…
Fantastical infrastructure imagining
This study is prompted by two of the most famous Hollywood blockbusters set above and below the ocean—The Abyss (1989) and Waterworld (1995). These films tell us something about catastrophic environmental degradation as much as they point us to the cultural power that is embedded in deep-sea structures and vehicles: the underwater drilling platform, built-up steampunk atolls and submersibles. The continuation of this fantastical infrastructure im…
TikTok and its mediatic split
TikTok has ousted Google as the world’s favorite online destination in 2021. As China’s first emergent social media app making its mark across the Global North and South, it has prompted a shift in our global mediascape. Following in the footsteps of YouTube and Instagram after it, TikTok is facilitating new identities through User-Generated Content (UGC) while challenging the hegemony of American-led platform culture. UGC analyzed in this articl…
Seaports as criminal gateways in contemporary South Korean cinema
This article examines the seaport as a trope in contemporary cinema in relation to notions of spatiality, illicit globalization, and border studies. We analyze how seaports as social and cultural networks of built environment and infrastructure have become gateways to illicit globalization. We then provide a critical analysis that unbundles these spaces in the film genre of neo-noir out of South Korea. Our focus then zooms in on real organized cr…
The World Health Organization in Contagion (2011) and World War Z (2013)
Understanding microorganisms and the havoc they cause requires exceptional creativity. Today, disease outbreaks and infections are largely understood through media narratives and their accompanying imagery. This article focuses on the World Health Organization (WHO) and its complex infrastructure via decentralization as depicted in two Hollywood films, Contagion (2011) and World War Z (2013). Reframing these contemporary blockbuster films as pand…
American globalization and hippie modernism at Earth Day in 1970
Deglobalisation, the SK Broadband Lawsuit and Netflixisation as Stabilising/Destabilising Forces for South Korean Streaming Services
Steve McQueen’s Year 3 as anti-Brexit art
Citizenship, migration and urban belonging in mega-cities are infrequently discussed in relation to young members of society. When visually staged to reflect a rescaling of multicultural membership and optimism for the future, the classroom and its young learners become a testing ground for interculturalism. In Steve McQueen’s Year 3 photography installation at the Tate Britain in 2019, London school classrooms and its 7 and 8-year-old pupils rai…
Bae Doona and Yi So-yeon as Korean-cosmopolitan celebrities
This article explores what elevates the actress Bae Doona and astronaut Yi So-yeon to the level of ‘Korean-cosmopolitan celebrities.’ Our contradictory but efficacious coinage recognizes their Koreanness and outstanding achievements on behalf of different industries – with work in film and aerospace – yet such identity and cultural position are rare in South Korea because it showcases the value and necessity of humanitarian activities that resist…
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