East Asian Transwar Popular Culture Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lin, Pei-yin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kim, Su Yun (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology-Asia.; Motion pictures-History.; Asia-History.; Asian Culture.; Film History.; Asian History.

This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectators...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Taiwan and Korea in Tandem
• Part I Colonial Romance and its Postwar Metamorphosis
• Coining the Ideal Woman in Love/Marriage Fiction from Colonial Taiwan
• The Epic and the Alternative: Romance in Postcolonial Taiwan
• Claiming Colonial Masculinity: Sex and Romance in Ch'ae Mansik's Colonial Fiction
• From the Detective to the Romance Genre: Popular Fiction in Postcolonial Korea
• Part II Cinematic Nationalism and Melodrama in the Colonial and Postwar Eras
• The Production of Imperialized Bodies: Colonial Taiwan's Film Regulations and Propaganda Films
• The National Anthem Film in the Early 1950s Taiwan
• Militarism, Enlightenment, and Colonial Korean Cinema
• The Spectacle of Affect: Postwar South Korean Melodrama Films
• Epilogue Transwar Imperial Formations: Popular Cultures.