Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1

Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1

Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias

Kim, Yeojin; Jayasinghe, Dharshani Lakmali; Ritzenhoff, Karen A.; Aleem, Hiba

Springer International Publishing AG

01/2025

331

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9783031720642

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Sociopolitical Narratives and Critique.- Chapter 2: Diegetic Violence as Narrative Necessity in Squid Game.- Chapter 3: Precarity and the Gladiators of Contemporary Television.- Part II: Discourses and Identities.- Chapter 4: Time, love, and memories in Dystopian Hong Kong: How Wong Kar-wai's 2046 sheds light on protestors' affects in anti-extradition bill protests.- Chapter 5: Connecting the Past to the Present: Independent Short Documentary, Camellia Flowers.- Chapter 6: Let's team up! Constructing narrative through alliances in Squid Game.- Part III: Class, Labor, and Environmental Perspectives.- Chapter 7: Anthony Shim's Riceboy Sleeps (2022): Metaphors of Survival in the Korean Diasporic Experience.- Chapter 8: Exploitation and Violence: Precarious Labor in Squid Game.- Chapter 9: Navigating Labor and Environmental Justice with Eiichiro Oda's One Piece.- Part IV: History, Nation, and Ideology.- Chapter 10: Rome as dystopia and Japan as utopia in Thermae Romae (2012) and Netflix anime series Thermae Romae Novae (2022).- Chapter 11: Victims, Villains, Spies, and Sluts: Gendered Nationalism and the Politics of Desire in Bollywood Films.- Chapter 12: Squid Game as Reflexive Heterotopia: From Text to Context.
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Asian Studies;transnational media;Asian popular culture;Asian film and tv;Korean wave;Bollywood