Asian Popular Culture: New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media

by John A. Lent

Book Overview

Asian Popular Culture explores the evolution and intersection of popular forms (gaming, manga, anime, film, music, YouTube videos) and explicates these media's changing cultural meanings in historical and contemporary contexts. At its core is the issue of the roles popular culture plays in the construction of national and regional identity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739179616
• ISBN13: 9780739179611
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"