ESOPExchange Students from Overseas Program

The last decades of the 20th century witnessed a great shift in the landscape of East Asian media and popular culture. Border-crossing visual cultural flows in conjunction with trans-Asian co-production among East Asian countries have not only strengthened the imaginary bond of "Asia," but also have cultivated a wider pan-Asian identity. This course will engage the interdisciplinary field of visual media and popular culture studies of East Asia. In this course, students will learn about the trans-Asian flow of Hong Kong films since the 1950s, the dissemination of Japanese popular culture during the 1970s-90s, and the recent popularity of Korean Wave.

Students will also develop an understanding of the processes that enabled Asian entertainers to become part of the larger Western media flows. Students will develop a critical awareness of how visual media and cultural globalization has engaged with the East Asian region and how the local visual media flow has influenced the global.

By the end of the course, students will be able to
•understand the historical development of visual media flows within East Asia
•learn through examples of East Asian visual media flows how culture and socio-political forces help shape hybridized trans-national identities
•cultivate a better understanding how East Asian visual cultural flows border cross and interact with globalization

英語 / English

This course will combine lectures, discussions, presentations and
screenings. The topics covered will include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following in the schedule section.

Comments/feedback for assignments (tests and reports, etc.) are given during office hours.

あり / Yes

なし / No

授業形態/methods of teaching：対面/face to face

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

1[対面/face to face]：Introduction

Lecture about popular culture in Asia.

2[対面/face to face]：Nationalism and Popular Culture

"National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life","Conceptualizing East Asian Popular Culture".

3[対面/face to face]：Early "Asian" Cinema

"From transnationalism to nativism? The rise,
decline and reinvention of a regional Hokkien entertainment industry","The Early Development of East Asian Cinema in a Regional Context".

4[対面/face to face]：Transnational Hong Kong Films

"Transnational imagination in action cinema:Hong Kong and the making of a global popular culture","Transnational collaborations, local competitiveness:
Mapping the geographies of filmmaking in/through Hong Kong"

5[対面/face to face]：Postcolonial Japanese Pop Culture

"Consuming Japan: Early Korean girls comic book artists' resistance and empowerment","Japanese popular music in Hong Kong"

6[対面/face to face]：Japanese Trendy Drama

"Romancing the Everyday: Hong Kong women watching Japanese Dorama","Popular Cultural Capital and Cultural Identity: Young Korean Women’s Cultural Appropriation of Japanese TV Dramas"

7[対面/face to face]：Midterm review

Midterm review

8[対面/face to face]：Pan Asian Music Flows

"Go with your feelings: Hong Kong and Taiwan Popular Culture in Greater China","Reconsidering Transnational Cultural Flows of Popular Music in East Asia:Transbordering Musicians in Japan and Korea searching for "Asia""

9[対面/face to face]：Millennial Flows

"Postcolonial Hong Kong cinema: Utilitarianism and (trans)local","Promise and perhaps love: Pan-Asian production and the Hong Kong-China interrelationship"

10[対面/face to face]：Korean Films and Television Dramas

"Time and the Neighbor: Japanese Media Consumption of Asia in the 1990s","Winter Sonata and the politics of memory","Touring 'Dramatic Korea': Japanese Women as Viewers of Hanryu Dramas and Tourists on Hanryu Tours".

11[対面/face to face]：21st Century Cool Japan

"Nationalizing ‘Cool': Japan’s Global Promotion of the Content Industry","Akihabara: Conditioning a Public "Otaku" Image".

12[対面/face to face]：K-pop phenomenon

"Hybridity and the rise of Korean popular culture in Asia","Chogukjeok pan-East Asian soft masculinity".

13[対面/face to face]：Future of East Asian Media Flows

"The limits of soft power"

14[対面/face to face]：Final review

Final review

Students are required to read assigned materials before class and be prepared to participate actively in class. Homework should be submitted on time. Late submission will not be entertained. The average study time outside of class per week would be roughly 4 hours.

Students are not required to purchase textbooks.

Class reading material will be uploaded to HOPPII.

Class participation (10%)
Reading assignments (20%)
Asking questions, speaking up during class discussions, and class behavior (20%)
Midterm exam (20%)
Final exam (30%)

Not applicable

Pen and paper notebook. Students are not allowed to use computers, tablets or smartphones in this class so students must take hand-written notes in class. They must also bring hard copies of the required readings to class.

This course requires students to have intermediate knowledge of media culture and globalization.

Do not miss the first class as a selection process may occur. The content of this syllabus may be subject to change.

Previously taking classes on media, race and gender, and East Asian history will enhance the learning experience for this class.