Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-334) and index.
Contents:
The softening of butches: the adoption of Korean "soft" masculinity among Thai toms / Dredge Byung'chu Kang -- Between screens and bodies: new queer performance in India / Kareem Khubchandani -- K-pop in Mexico: flash mobs, media stunts, and the momentum of global mutual recognition / Erica Vogel -- Making the past present: intertextuality and pastiche in Bollywood neo-noir / Gohar Siddiqui -- The politics and promises of "gangnam style" / S. Heijin Lee -- Ranveer Singh's "chichorapan": habitus, masculinity, and stardom / Praseeda Gopinath -- Consolidating Bollywood: spectacularity without stardom / Akshaya Kumar -- Imitating flower boy stars: K-pop male stars and assembling new female masculinity in Korea / Layoung Shin -- Expanding diasporic identity through Bollywood dance in London / Kristen Rudisill -- From Seoul to cinemascapes: the private lives of contemporary cine-tourism in (and out) of India / Samhita Sunya -- Hallyu in Hollywood: South Korean actors in the United States / Valerie Soe -- Sassy girl: a transnational reading of the monstrous girlfriend in South Korea, India, and the United States / Jane Chi Hyun Park -- Imagining virtual audiences: digital distribution, global media, and online fandom / Monika Mehta and Lisa Patti -- How K-pop went global: digitization and the market-making of Korean entertainment houses / Solee I. Shin -- Toward a global community: dreaming high with K-pop / Hae Joo Kim -- Thinking outside the canvas: the lost art of cinema billboards in South Korea and India / Roald Maliangkay.
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