The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global

Cover
The Korean Wave
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Korean media in a digital cosmopolitan world
Part I Power and politics of the global
	1 Soft power and the Korean Wave
	2 Korean Wave and inter-Asian referencing
	3 Reconfiguring media and empire
Part II Popular media and digital mobile culture
	4 Korean Wave pop culture in the global Internet age: why popular? Why now?
	5 For the eyes of North Koreans? Politics of money and class in Boys Over Flowers
	6 K-pop female idols in the West: racial imaginations and erotic fantasies
	7 Negotiating identity and power in transnational cultural consumption: Korean American youths and the Korean Wave
	8 Digitization and online cultures of the Korean Wave: “East Asian” virtual community in Europe
	9 Hybridization of Korean popular culture: films and online gaming
	10 K-pop dance trackers and cover dancers: global cosmopolitanization and local spatialization
Part III Perspectives inside/outside
	11 Cultural policy and the Korean Wave: from national culture to transnational consumerism
	12 Re-worlding culture?: YouTube as a K-pop interlocutor
	13 The Korean Wave as a cultural epistemic
	14 The Korean Wave and “global culture”
Index