Mediating the South Korean other: representations and discourses of difference in the post/neocolonial nation-state

Introduction / David C. Oh -- Part I: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other: 1. Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men / Min Joo Lee -- 2. Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television / Benjamin M. Han -- 3. The Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in the Survival Audition Program in South Korea / Ji-Hyun Ahn -- 4. Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: The South Korean films Rosa and Thuy / Eunbi Lee and Colby Y. Miyose -- 5. Two Sides of the "Other": Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Russell Edwards -- Part II: Mediating the Co-ethnic Other: 6. "Truth? No One Cares about the Truth": On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady / Myoung-Sun Song -- 7. Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions / Miseong Woo -- 8. Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea/ns in Hallyu Films / JongHwa Lee -- 9. Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in the South Korean Documentary Film Uri-Hakkyo / Min Wha Han -- 10. The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-Pop Star / Alice Nahyeon Kim and Sherry S. Yu -- Conclusion / David C. Oh -- Contributors -- Index.

Introduction / David C. Oh -- Part I: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other: 1. Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men / Min Joo Lee -- 2. Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television / Benjamin M. Han -- 3. The Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in the Survival Audition Program in South Korea / Ji-Hyun Ahn -- 4. Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: The South Korean films Rosa and Thuy / Eunbi Lee and Colby Y. Miyose -- 5. Two Sides of the "Other": Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Russell Edwards -- Part II: Mediating the Co-ethnic Other: 6. "Truth? No One Cares about the Truth": On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady / Myoung-Sun Song -- 7. Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions / Miseong Woo -- 8. Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea/ns in Hallyu Films / JongHwa Lee -- 9. Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in the South Korean Documentary Film Uri-Hakkyo / Min Wha Han -- 10. The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-Pop Star / Alice Nahyeon Kim and Sherry S. Yu -- Conclusion / David C. Oh -- Contributors -- Index.