Introduction / Part I: Trans-Asian connectivity and dialogue / 1. The Yellow Pacific: East Asian Pop Culture and East Asian Modernities, Younghan Cho / 2. The National Is/As the Global, Ariel Heryanto / 3. Vancouver Imagined: The Trans-Pacific Itineraries of Film Locations, Helen Hok-Sze Leung / Part II: Muslim modernities / 4. Who wants to be a (Muslim) Millionaire? Motivation, modernity and the power of positive narratives in contemporary Indonesia, Meg Downes / 5. Disembedded listeners: religious oratory in the age of information, Julian Millie / Part III: Cultural diversity / 6. Affective listening? The politics of (mediated) minority recognition in the ‘All About Us’ project in Hong Kong, Lisa Leung Yuk-ming / 7. Long Live Cuteness’: S.H.E.’s ‘Girl Power’ and the Negotiations with Nationalisms in ‘Pop Culture China, Liew Kai Khiun and Yang Fang-Chih Irene / 8. Queer India(s): the pleasures of song and dance, Shalmalee Palekar / Part IV: Cultural politics and digital convergence / 9. Digital Creative Labour: The Ethics of Labour and Neoliberal Governmentality of Selfhood, Yeran Kim / 10. Digital Pluralism and Dissociative Publics, Koichi Iwabuchi / 11. Digital Media, International Students, and the Cultural Politics of Location, Fran Martin / Afterword, John N. Erni / Index

Offers an analysis of key and emerging influences and practices in the Asian cultural and media studies landscape. Interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives provided by a diverse range of scholars, each of whom brings a different focus and area of expertise to the key themes of the volume. The first book to consider the broad sweep on Asian media and cultural studies in over a decade. Designed not only to present rich insights into the current topography of Asian cultural and media studies, but also to demonstrate practical engagement with the conceptual and methodological challenges of research in this area.