Title: | Representing the Western Super-minority: Desirable Cosmopolitanism and Homosocial Multiculturalism on a South Korean Talk Show; |
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Authors and Corporations: | |
In: | Television & New Media, 21, 2020, 3, p. 260-277 |
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SAGE Publications
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 260-277 |
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ISSN: |
1527-4764
1552-8316 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1527476418789895 |
published in: | Television & New Media |
Language: | English |
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Collection: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> Airing on Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting Company (JTBC), a South Korean television network, Non Summit represents multiculturalism on the small screen through light-hearted, loosely structured debates between eleven men from different nations that is moderated by three Korean hosts. This study approaches the show’s representation of multinational, homosocial masculine friendship and commentary as a text that advances the goals of damunhwa, a locally specific articulation of multiculturalism. Non Summit does this by constructing a normative ideal of a cosmopolitan citizen who espouses liberal progressive values and appreciation for superficial multicultural difference. The ideal, which the show associates with the West, is occasionally ruptured through fleeting moments when non-Western members challenge Western superiority and Koreanness, however, the ruptures are patched through the show’s policing of difference through shared, heteronormative masculinity and homosocial friendship. </jats:p> |