The K-Wave On-Screen: In Words and Objects

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Prelims
1 Defining K-
	De-Westernised and de-colonised discourses
	Agency of K-fandom
	A bird’s eye view of the K-Wave
	The stats
	Why the K-Wave on-screen through words and objects?
2 Squid Game
	Training suit
	Mask
	Korean neighbourhood
	Dalgona
	Ddakji
	Hibiscus flower
	Loan-shark’s contract
	Side dishes
	Spoon
	“We are kkanbu”
	“I ate steak already with my stepdad”
	Oppa, hyeong, sajangnim
3 Parasite
	Banjiha
		Neighbourhood
		‘Temple of excrement’ and sleeping mat
		Window
	From low to high – from poor to rich
		Entrance
		Neighbourhood
		Entrance
	The house with a garden
		Bath, bed, and art
		Staircase
	A housewife’s hanbok
	Ramdon
	Fruit
	University certificate
	Scholar’s Rock
4 SKY Castle
	University exam
	English
	Parental capital
	College coordinator
5 Mr Sunshine
	Suit, kimono, or hanbok?
	Jangot, palanquins, and neo-Confucian womanhood
	Hair
	Newspapers
	Jemulpo harbour
	Candy
6 Pachinko
	Colonisation
	Scar
	Pachinko machine
	White
		White rice
		White hanbok
	Suit, kimono, or hanbok?
	Television
		VHS was all we had!
		Then streaming opened everything up!
	Landscape
		The sea
		The fish market
		Eomma’s house
7 Kim Ji-young: Born 1982
	Contemporary Korean womanhood and K-
	#MeToo
	Female voices
	Women should work without rest, except when eating
	Apron
	Peeling fruit
8 Kingdom
	Opening scene
		Dragon
		Glutinous rice in the mouth
		Three ties
	Gat
	Feather
	Hairpins and hairpieces
	Beef pancakes
	Clown
Appendix 1
Index