T Over the past decades, an increasing amount of cultural products such as television dramas, movies, animations and pop music have gained immense popularity among Asian countries, especially in Mainland China since the Chinese economic reform in the early 1980s. E Popular culture is often referred to as a ‘mass culture’, ‘a cultural phenomenon’ and ‘a sphere of capitalist activities’ (Fung, 2007; Chua, 2007), with the capacity to transcend national boundaries and delimitate political tensions
international market. Apart from Hollywood, Korean Wave( Hallyu), Japanese wave and Taiwanese wave have rapidly become dominant in Asia and gradually approached western countries. Korean wave in 2011 induced 10,2 billion of national production and increased to 11,7 billion in 2014 according to KOTRA. Or “Nollywood” is well known in Africa and becomes the second largest film industry. It seems like they are trying to expand their dominance in more area. Many Korean artists like BOA, CL have been trying
Throughout the Korean history, the concept of gender roles has played a significant part in the realm of a Confucianism culture. The traditional expectation of gender roles in a Confucian system has always outrageously positioned the construction of placing men before women. In terms of this inferior belief and attitude towards Korean women in the society. Korean women were highly restricted in various conditions. This research essay will argue that the concept of gender role in Korea has remained
capitalist America. (Dowling 60) In Rhiannon Dowling’s book “Consumerism, anticommunism and romantic comedy in Ernst Lubitsch 's "Ninotchka"” she describes how Ninotchka was a direct offense to the Soviet Union and one of the turning points in Cold War cultural tension : “The Soviet occupation authorities in East Germany sent their American counterparts in West Germany into a frenzy in 1948 with their release of Mikhail Romm 's Russkii Vopros ; the film was an unequivocally biting indictment of American
to prove your point. The Philippine film industry, considered by many critics, producers, directors, movie workers, is either slowly but surely dying or is already dead. Notice the use of the term "Philippine film industry" instead of "Philippine cinema." This is such for the main reason that the people who deem filmmaking in the Philippines dead, qualify their assumption based on box-office returns and the profit their movies make. Hence it is more apt to use the term film industry since what they
The Role of Internet in Cultural Globalization Introduction At this point of time, globalization has grown to be a phenomenon that is significantly important economically, politically, and culturally. The amalgamation and incorporation of the world economy around the globe has reshaped business. Not only this, it has created "new social classes, different jobs, unimaginable wealth, and, occasionally, wretched poverty" (Kiggundu 2002, p. 4) by restructuring the lives of the individuals. For some
communities as a result of globalization, and the understanding and recognition of other cultures through the interpretation of cultural borders. In this essay I will analyse to what extent globalisation is affecting identity formation, and also the roles of cultural borders in today’s world. I will assess whether through globalisation of the media we are in fact overcoming cultural borders and traditional stereotypes and in turn forging a mutual respect between foreign communities, or as Said argues (Said
communism * Restricted immigration, to retain American social balance and to keep out communism * the maintenance of existing social hierarchy so that the wealthy dominated politics * Christian extremism * racist attitudes (belief in the cultural superiority of white protestant Americans to all other races and cultures) * opposition to crime, esp. organised crime * belief in democracy * belief in American capitalism Notes on the 1930s extrapolated from lego boxes NB quickly
deviated from its original purpose of informing the public about new products • E.g. Use of photoshop • E.g. ‘Sex sells’ Agent Provocateur lingerie got sexy pop icon Kylie Minogue to ride wildly on a mechanical bull and challenge the men in the cinema to stand up to prove to everyone that they were not turned on • E.g. Terms and Conditions of financial advertisements always printed in small font • E.g. Use of empty but colourful language such as “new and improved”, or “part of a complete
capitalist, colonial, and fascist. Particularly revealing are Spodek’s discussions of the influence of prominent urban planners and architects— including Le Corbusier and the Chicago School—urban preservation and the city as the locus of global cultural development, and the ways in which slums and shanty towns have morphed into long-term homes and viable communities for perhaps a majority of urban dwellers worldwide in the last half of the twentieth century. Broadly conceived and remarkably comprehensive