New kings of the world : dispatches from Bollywood, dizi, and K-pop

Title
New kings of the world : dispatches from Bollywood, dizi, and K-pop

Author
Bhutto, Fatima, 1982- author.

ISBN
9781733623704

Physical Description
206 pages : map ; 19 cm.

Personal Subject
Khan, Shah Rukh, 1965-

Subject Term
Popular culture -- Asia.
 
Television soap operas.
 
Popular music -- Korea (South).
 
Culture and globalization -- Asia.
 
Mass media and culture -- Asia.
 
East and West.

Geographic Term
Asia -- Civilization -- 21st century.
 
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
 
United States -- Relations -- Asia.
 
Asia -- Relations -- United States.

Summary
There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald's, and blue jeans. This is a book about these new arbiters of mass culture arising from the East-India's Bollywood films, Turkish soap opera, or dizi, and South Korean pop music. Carefully packaging not always secular modernity with traditional values in urbanized settings, they have created a new global pop culture that can be easily consumed, especially by the many millions coming late to the modern world and still negotiating its overwhelming challenges. Author Fatima Bhutto profiles Shah Rukh Khan, by many measures the most popular movie star in the world; goes behind the scenes of Magnificent Century, Turkey's biggest TV show, watched by upwards of 200 million people across 43 countries; and travels to South Korea to see how K-Pop started it all, and how "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube video with one billion views. --


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Oakdale Library306.095 BHUNonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)306.095 BHUNonfiction Collection