[KS] New book publication announcement

[Andy Jackson]

Dear list members,I wonder if I may announce the publication of two new books:


 
Andrew DavidJackson. The Musin Rebellion: Politics and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Korea.Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2016.

The Musin Rebellion had itsroots in the factional conflicts surrounding Yŏngjo's troubled succession tothe throne. Jackson analyzes an aspect of the conflict previously neglected byresearchers, namely how the rebels managed to create an armed rebellion.He argues that the rebellion should be understood in the context of otherattempts on power by factional members that occurred over a hundred-year periodleading up to 1728. By exploring the political and military context of theevent, the book demonstrates that the Musin Rebellion was not driven bysystemic breakdown, regionalism, or ideology, but was a failed attempt bypolitical players to take control of the court. Central to the eruption ofviolence in 1728 was the intervention of key rebel plotters, several of whomwere serving officials with access to state military resources. The bookprovides an in-depth view of factional politics in the Chosŏn court, and thefinal section deals with the rebel legacy, bringing to the fore issues aboutmanaging, forming, and directing the historical memory of the rebellion.


 
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9538-9780824852726.aspx


 

 
Andrew DavidJackson and Colette Balmain (eds). Korean Screen Cultures: InterrogatingCinema, TV, Music and Online Games. Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd, 2016.


 

 
The «Korean Wave», or Hallyu phenomenon, hasbrought South Korean popular culture to the global population. Studies onKorean visual culture have therefore often focused on this aspect, leavingNorth Korea sidelined and often considered in a negative light because of itspolitical regime. Korean ScreenCultures sets out to redress thisimbalance with a broad selection of essays spanning both North and South aswell as different methodological approaches, from ethnographic and audiencestudies to cultural materialist readings. The first section of the book, «The South»,highlights popular media – including online gaming and television drama – andconcentrates on the margins, in which the very nature of «The South» iscontested. «The South and the North» examines North Korea as an ideologicalother in South Korean popular culture as well as discussing North Korean cinemaitself. «The Global» offers new approaches to Korean popular culture beyondnational borders and includes work on K-pop and Korean television drama. Thisbook is a vital addition to existing scholarship on Korean popular culture,offering a unique view by providing an imaginary unification of the two Koreasnegotiated through local and transnational popular culture flows.


 
Contents: Jacob Ki Nielsen: It’s a RoughneckWorld: Male Solidarity across Generations, Classes and Races in the TV Drama Get Up – Ji-yoon An: Blood is Thicker than Water,or is It? Depictions of «Alternative Families» in Contemporary Korean Cinema –Chloé Paberz: The Narrative of the Misfit among South Korean Game Developers –Chi-Yun Shin: Locating Cosmopolitanism in the Films of E J-Yong – Jake Bevan:«Arirang»: Addressing the Nation in South and North Korea – Stephen J.Epstein/Christopher K. Green: Now on My Way to Meet Who? South KoreanTelevision, North Korean Refugees and the Dilemmas of Representation – ImmanuelKim: Comedy and Ideology in MyFamily’s Problem –Andrew David Jackson: DPRK Film, OrderNo. 27 and the Acousmatic Voice –Hana Lee: How Are Historic Events Remembered? North Korean War Films on theInchon Landing Operation – Mark Morris: Ch’unhyang at War: RediscoveringFranco-North Korean FilmMoranbong (1959)– Jessica Conte: Framing South Korea and Vietnam’s Past and Present in Muoi: The Legend of aPortrait –Juyeon Bae: Searching for Traces of Absence: Korean Diaspora in ContemporaryKorean Cinema – CedarBough T. Saeji: Cosmopolitan Strivings and Racialisation:The Foreign Dancing Body in Korean Popular Music Videos – Marion Schulze:Inappropriate Desire and Heterosexuality Negotiated: The Case of Women K-DramaWatchers.


 
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=82721&cid=448&concordeid=431822


 

 
Best, Andrew

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