{"product_id":"9783031720673","title":"Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1 : Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first of two volumes explores how contemporary Asian popular culture reflects and critiques social issues. The authors, from different scholarly backgrounds, examine how shows like \u003cem\u003eSquid Game\u003c\/em\u003e present a scathing critique of oppressive socio-economic structures, conceptualize national heterotopias, utopias, and dystopias, and facilitate understanding of identity formation and discourses of resistance. The volume encompasses chapters discussing themes that intersect gender, race, politics, and social dynamics. It showcases ongoing developments in Asian popular culture in the wake of the global popularity of \u003cem\u003eSquid Game\u003c\/em\u003e and in anticipation of its second season release in December 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction.- \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Sociopolitical Narratives and Critique\u003c\/strong\u003e.- Chapter 2: Diegetic Violence as Narrative Necessity in \u003cem\u003eSquid Game\u003c\/em\u003e.- Chapter 3: Precarity and the Gladiators of Contemporary Television.- \u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Discourses and Identities\u003c\/strong\u003e.- Chapter 4: Time, love, and memories in Dystopian Hong Kong: How Wong Kar-wai's \u003cem\u003e2046\u003c\/em\u003e sheds light on protestors' affects in anti-extradition bill protests.- Chapter 5: Connecting the Past to the Present: Independent Short Documentary, \u003cem\u003eCamellia Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e.- Chapter 6: Let's team up! Constructing narrative through alliances in \u003cem\u003eSquid Game\u003c\/em\u003e.- \u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Class, Labor, and Environmental Perspectives\u003c\/strong\u003e.- Chapter 7: Anthony Shim's \u003cem\u003eRiceboy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Sleeps\u003c\/em\u003e (2022): Metaphors of Survival in the Korean Diasporic Experience.- Chapter 8: Exploitation and Violence: Precarious Labor in \u003cem\u003eSquid Game\u003c\/em\u003e.- Chapter 9: Navigating Labor and Environmental Justice with Eiichiro Oda's \u003cem\u003eOne Piece\u003c\/em\u003e.- \u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: History, Nation, and Ideology\u003c\/strong\u003e.- Chapter 10: Rome as dystopia and Japan as utopia in \u003cem\u003eThermae \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eRomae\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and Netflix anime series \u003cem\u003eThermae \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eRomae\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Novae \u003c\/em\u003e(2022).- Chapter 11: Victims, Villains, Spies, and Sluts: Gendered Nationalism and the Politics of Desire in Bollywood Films.- Chapter 12: \u003cem\u003eSquid Game\u003c\/em\u003e as Reflexive Heterotopia: From Text to Context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYeojin Kim\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ph.D. is an associate professor in Communication at Central Connecticut State University, USA. She is also affiliated with the East Asian Studies and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies. Her primary research area is digital media and strategic communication, focusing on how organizations and the public communicate in a digital media environment, employing various messages and channels to achieve specific strategic goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe, \u003c\/strong\u003ePh.D. is an assistant professor of Anglophone and World Literatures in the Department of English at Central Connecticut State University, USA. With a background in comparative literature, Jayasinghe's interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research and teaching interests include themes in immigration, visa law and policy, LGBTQIA+ identity, Global South epistemologies, and translation studies in anglophone and world literatures and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHiba Aleem, \u003c\/strong\u003ePh.D. is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of English, Writing, and Communication at Emmanuel College Boston, USA, where she teaches Literary Methods and has taught Global Literature and Film and Academic Writing. She is also a Fulbright program scholar from Washington College, Chestertown, holds a Ph. D in English from JNU, New Delhi, and has more than six years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in English literature, language, and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren A. Ritzenhoff\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ph.D. is a professor in Communication and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Central Connecticut State University, USA. In 2021 she co-edited \u003cem\u003eMediated Terrorism in the 21st Century \u003c\/em\u003e(Palgrave) with Elena Caoduro and Karen Randell. \u003cem\u003eNew Perspectives on the War Film \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Palgrave in 2019, co-edited with Clémentine Tholas and Janis L. Goldie. Ritzenhoff has published three additional anthologies with Palgrave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49040937124075,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":311.28,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031720673","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}