Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Transnational Approach
5. 1 Converging on Love and Indifference: Mediated Otherness in South and East Asia 17
6. 2 The Child Bride: Unpacking the Popularity of the Indian Television Show Balika Vadhu in Vietnam 37
7. 3 Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Co-creative Culture, and Transnational Chinese Icons on YouTub 54
8. 4 Screen to Screen: Adaptation and Transnational Circulation of Chinese (Web) Novels for Television 72
9. 5 Rhetorical Liminality in Southeast Asian Media Representations of Human Trafficking 94
10. 6 Addressing Transnational Legacies of Colonialism in East Asia: Cases from Contemporary Japanese Art 108
11. Part II Single-Nation Approach
12. 7 Media, Narrative, and Culture: Narrativizing and Contextualizing Korean Mukbang Shows 129
13. 8 Construction, Consumption, and Representation of White Supremacy in Sri Lankan Advertisements: Living White while Being Non-White 148
14. 9 A Liminal Bengali Identity: Film Culture in Bangladesh 162
15. 10 Screening Southeast Asia: Film, Politics, and the Emergence of the Nation in Postwar Southeast Asia 180
16. 11 Afghan Media and Culture in Transition 198
17. 12 A Semiotic Analysis of Symbolic Actions of Iranian Instagram Users 214
18. Acknowledgments 229
19. Notes on Contributors 231
20. Index 235