Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men's Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self.
In the 21 century Korean television dramas (K-dramas) have featured prominently in the Vietnamese menu of mass cultural consumption as part of Hallyu – the global popularisation of South Korean cultural products. Grounded in Michel Foucault's notion of 'technologies of the self', which conceptualise...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 481 - 500 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2023
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