Asian popular culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lent, John A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
Series:International communication and popular culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "Hey, we equatorial people" : popular music and contemporary society in Malaysia / Craig A. Lockard
  • Music culture in Singapore : record companies, retailers, and performers / Alan Wells and Lee Chun Wah
  • Thai cassettes and their covers : two case histories / Deborah Wong
  • Blood, brothers, and Hong Kong gangster movies : pop culture commentary on "One China" / Barbara Ryan
  • Southeast Asia pop art : the movie billboard / John A. Lent
  • Mr. Atomic, Mr. Mercury, and Chime Trooper : Japan's answer to the American dream / Ron Tanner
  • Coffee shop culture : days in the life of Manila's gossip mill / Antonio Lopez
  • Cartooning in Sri Lanka : a precarious tightrope act / Leonard Rifas
  • Sexism in Japanese weekly comic magazines for men / Kinko Ito
  • Sanmao : classic cartoons and Chinese popular culture / Mary Ann Farquhar
  • Immortal picture-stories : comic art in early Indian art / Aruna Rao
  • Moving art galleries of South and Southeast Asia / John A. Lent
  • Modern Malay folklore : the humor magazines / Ronald Provencher
  • Crossing ethnolinguistic boundaries : a preliminary look at the Gaijin Tarento in Japan / Laura Miller
  • Pachinko, Japan's national pastime / Elizabeth Kiritani