...Long Bui Using the television program Vietnam Idol as a case study, the author demonstrates that even though shows like this aim to bring Viet Nam into the fold of global culture, it reconfigures dominant notions of “culture” and reinforces certain mappings of power. At the very moment it brings...

...Gabriella Lukacs This essay analyzes how the digital media economy harnesses young people's search for meaningful work to develop new apparatuses and mechanisms of extracting value from activities that are not typically recognized as work. Drawing on interviews with net idols and an analysis...

... with vehicles starring their oyama idols, embraced a feminine sensibility that threatened to derail attempts to elevate Japanese film culture. The article begins with an examination of positive treatments of oyama to get a sense of how the personae of these performers were constructed in commercial movie...

.... As one men’s magazine put this relation, “Idols emerge where a society is vigorous. The sharp contrast between Japan and Asia in terms of the idol markets elucidates a decline in the predominance of Japanese idol markets.”26 Even where...

... what other and how the market mediates these rela- tionships is Koichi Iwabuchi’s preoccupation in his essay “Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Consumption of ‘Asia’in Japan.” Here Japan’s highly market-mediated idol worshipers...

... that there is no outside and therefore no justice, no higher court of appeals, underpins the extraordinary film Idol, a brilliant farce directed by the enfant terrible (but also “the father”) of Philippine digi- tal cinema, Khvan de la Cruz...

... to associate their knowledge of the city with popular texts produced before the early 2000s. While they were aware of Cantopop idols who rose to fame in the local popular music scene since the early 2000s such as Eason Chan, Joey Yung, and Twins, the examples they named were more likely to be legendary singers...

... of human beings for self-worship (or the worship of “the idol of the tribe”) is the basic drive that propels a people to make its own nation. Wang Fu- chang, in “The Essence of Ethnic Assimilation,” purports to examine the objective facts regarding...

... Neither affirming nor denying Neither glorious nor shameful Neither chaste nor promiscuous Neither alive nor dead I hang my self-portrait on a low wall Each day I pay homage to my only idol...

... in 1990s Japan (2010). Her current book project focuses on net idols, cell phone novelists, Internet traders, “girly” photographers, and bloggers to examine how women seek “mean- ingful” work in the digital economy and how this economy harnesses...

... of the Idols , translated by Holt Richard . 43 – 49 . Indianapolis : Hackett . Santner Eric L. 1996 . My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Secret History of Modernity . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Schmitt Carl . 2003 . The Nomos of the Earth...

..., and the perverse genealogies of these photographs’ layered refer- ences.15 In his essay on the translation of the massively popular American Ngô, Nguyen, and Lam ‚ Guest Editors’ Introduction 683 Idol (itself a “copy” of the British reality show...

... virtual com- panions. Another virtual marketing success of the 1990s was a virtual idol, Date Kyoko, the brainchild of the Hori production company, one of the best- known idol producers in the Japanese pop music industry. Date’s virtual Iida...

... deriving income from non-Christian temple activities referred to as “eating the idol’s rice.”2 This essay examines the confluence of antivegetarianism and anti-Bud- dhism in Christian missionary discourses on Chinese religion, focusing...

... Carolina at Chapel Hill . www.unc.edu/world/2011Seminars/Tsipursky_PPT.pps ( accessed August 22, 2017 ). Vladimir Vysotsky: The official site . 2017 . www.kulichki.com/vv/eng/ ( accessed August 26, 2017 ). Wang Ying-Shun . 2001 . “The Satellite-Style Idol Who Carries No Historical...

... of living for oneself. At the time of writing, narratives about thirty-­something, independent, urban qingshounü dominate the plots of Japanese-­style Taiwan idol drama, the island’s second-­highest-­rating TV genre (after the Minnan-­language soap...

... official, meets Kawashima Yoshiko. Yamaguchi (fig. I) was to become the noted Japanese film-industry idol Ri KO-ran within the next two years. Her real name was Yamaguchi Yoshiko and she was, in fact, Japanese; she was born in Manchuria...

... Revolution was over and the idol smashed and reality reasserted itself that we began to feel lonely. We all worshipped idols during the Cultural Revolution. In those days we sincerely despised our- selves. It was as though we all felt...

..., then the flaw in this strategy was that these feelings of compassion erased the last of the aura of divinity from the idol. If we say that “ruined temples are still shrines, toppled idols are still divinities,” then the heat wave of “Mao...

... and write, tried to imitate her brother’s handwriting and copied it positions 18:3  Winter 2010 688 several times. In the absence of her childhood idol, Ms. Qian would copy the same line over and over again...