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The Hidden Hallyu Emerged: Exploring the Key Motives of Reading Adapted K‐Webtoons of South Korea

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate why global fans read Korean webtoons (K‐webtoons) and how their motivations vary across different genres. Previous studies have approached the Korean Wave (Hallyu) from a national perspective, emphasizing its influence and primarily discussing K‐pop and K‐drama.
Hoseok Gwak, Ga‐rog Han, Taehyung Kim, Minseok Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transhistorical fear: The representation of colonial memories of horror as a traumatic national consciousness in Korean cinema

Asian Cinema
Transhistorical fear is a concept related to historical memory and collective imaginaries that emerge from traumatic experiences in the past. From the emergence of the New Korean Cinema, the industry has attempted to portray narratives about Japanese ...
Sonia Duenas Mohedas, Álvaro Trigo Maldonado   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction

, 2015
The introduction to this volume is intended as a tool for future study of Animal Horror Cinema. It first defines this type of Cinema as films that describe how a particular animal or an animal species commit a transgression against humanity and then ...
Hållén, Nicklas,, Höglund, Johan,, Katarina Gregersdotter, Gregersdotter, Katarina,, Nicklas Hållén, Johan Höglund   +5 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Creeping decay: cult soundtracks, residual media, and digital technologies

, 2015
This paper explores the recent resurgence in the collecting of cult film soundtracks, in particular films stemming from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and often linked to horror and other modes of exploitation cinema.
Sexton, Jamie
core   +1 more source

Hybrid Horror: Cultural-Religious Syncretism and Market Adaptation in Contemporary Southeast Asian Supernatural Cinema

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change
This study analyzes the convergence of cultural-religious syncretism, narrative hybridity, and market adaptation in Southeast Asian supernatural film in Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
Apinya Anphanlam
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
wiley   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source