A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Dal Yong Jin discusses the concept of transnational proximity while observing the ongoing success of the Golden Globe-winning KPop Demon Hunters.
Read moreKpop Demon Hunters exhibits how “K-pop aesthetics” have become a shared cultural resource, complicating discourses surrounding ownership, global-local identity, and the future of the Korean Wave in the global, digital streaming era.
Read moreKpop Demon Hunters is experiencing an unprecedented global success as an animated film, becoming the most watched content on Netflix with 325.1 million views in ninety-one days following its release. While one might be inclined to identify specific elements of the film that appeal to the global audience, Kpop Demon Hunters prompts us to examine questions of national identity in terms of its Koreanness, as an animated film produced by Sony Pictures and distributed on Netflix, with Koreans making up twenty percent of the film’s creative team.
Read moreDal Yong Jin discusses cultural hybridization in the global media era with a special look at the Netflix phenom “K-Pop Demon Hunters.”
Read moreSwapnil Rai explores how streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon shape diplomacy, narratives, and policy, positioning themselves as cultural power brokers beyond national borders in an era of digital media dominance.
Read moreDr. Sylwia Szostak examines Netflix’s “nostalgia strategy” in a recent Polish film, Mr. Car and the Knights Templar, arguing that global distribution results in the delocalization of Netflix’s “local productions.”
Read morePatty Ahn explores how YouTube is helping Korean pop music become a global phenomenon.
Read moreAmanda Halprin examines the different translation and subtitling processes utilized by Netflix, DramaFever, and Viki in bringing global, foreign language digital content to U.S. audiences.
Read moreSushant Kishore explores digital media, the performance of communitas and political partisanship, and posthuman social media communities through a comparative discussion of India’s 2014 General Election and the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election.
Read moreDan Herbert explores the interaction of entertainment media retail sites, particularly video rental stores, with Somali and Hmong diaspora populations over time in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN.
Read moreManuel G. Avilés-Santiago explores the intersections of pageants, politics, and social media in light of a newsworthy 2015 Miss Universe and pageants’ cultivation of media spreadability via “YouTube moments.”
Read moreMany new questions arise in the wake of digital television distribution and the internationalization of the American television landscape.
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