Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea


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Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South KoreaMichelle Cho and Jesook Song, Editors
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Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea focuses on the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea's burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, doing what no other academic volume has yet accomplished in the sphere of Anglophone studies on this topic. Seeking to interrogate the role of popular media in establishing and shaping gendered common sense, this volume fosters cross-disciplinary conversations linked by the central thesis that gender discourse and representation are central to the politics, aesthetics, and economics of contemporary South Korea. In the post-authoritarian period (the late 1980s to the #MeToo present), media representation and popular discourse changed the gender conventions that are found at the core of civic, political, and cultural debates.

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea maps the ways in which popular media and public discourse make the social dynamics of gender visible and open them up for debate and dismantling. In presenting innovative new research on the ways in which popular ideas about gender gain concrete form and political substance through mass mediation, the book's contributors investigate the discursive production of gender in contemporary South Korea through trends, tropes, and thematics, as popular media become the domain in which new gendered subjectivities and relations transpire. The essays in this volume present cases and media objects that span multiple media and platforms, introducing new ways of thinking about gender as a platform and a conceptual infrastructure in the post-authoritarian era.

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Historicization of Media1. Feminism Reboot
2. Intermedial Feminism
3. The Birth of “Korean” Manhwa and the Discourse of Gendered Realism Since the 1990s
4. Gendered Violence, Crisis of Masculinity, and Regressive Transgression in Postmillennial South Korean Crime Thrillers
Section II: Consuming Gender5. Female Pathology and Marginal Humor in a Thrift Podcast
6. Against Confinement
7. Gendered Mediation in Yun Sangho’s Saimdang
8. “I Can Speak Because I Am a Mother”
Section III: Pop Remediation9. A Spunky Girl Meets a Queer Boy
10. The Emergence of “Daughter-Fools”
11. Discontent with Gender and Sexuality in Painter of the Wind
12. BL-ing Bromance, Bromancing Ŭiri
Contributors
Index

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