Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia

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ID19928607
EditorsNissim Otmazgin (0000-0002-7450-3909), Eyal Ben-Ari
Year2012
Publication date2012-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePopular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNUS Press (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.2307/j.ctv1nthhp
OpenAlexW2340097854
ISBN9789971696252
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited1

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 - organisational 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 organising 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 analyse 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

Ancient history · Archaeology · China · East Asia · Geography · Political science · Southeast asia · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Philippine History and Culture · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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