The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere

Michelson, Anna

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“…Secara genre, serial drama A Business Proposal dapat pula dikategorikan sebagai drama bergenre romantic suspense. Drama romantic suspense adalah drama yang mengombinasikan unsur-unsur romantisme dengan cerita yang menfokuskan pada intimacy, passion dan commitment (Hettich, 2021) satu atau lebih pasangan dengan suasana penuh kegembiraan, penuh cinta dan bahkan penuh ketegangan dengan mengangkat lebih dari satu twist cerita yang secara sengaja membangun kebingungan pemirsa sebelum akhirnya ditampilkan ending cerita (Michelson, 2021).…”

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A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

Rosana

2022

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The Hallyu phenomenon is a Korean Wave phenomenon created due to the increasingly sophisticated mass media technology. Hallyu influences global civilization with various mass media products, including a Korean drama series with the theme of romance. The romance promoted in this Korean drama cannot be separated from what Jean Baudrillard calls Simulacra (false reality), which will later become a hyperreality when the pseudo-reality is believed to be more accurate than reality itself. The Korean drama series 'A Business Proposal' is an example of a drama that presents a form of utopian romance (pseudo-romantic). The concept of romanticism is built to give rise to a new concept of romanticism that is very different from the reality of romanticism. A Business Proposal presents a new concept of romanticism with an image as an ideal figure, aspects of romantic nature, hierarchical aspects of romanticism, aspects of romantic absurdity, and motivational aspects of romanticism. This study focuses on the analysis of the Korean drama A Business Proposal which was released in February 2022, in the perspective of Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra Theory, especially on the concept of romanticism or romantic relationships. The results show that the Korean drama A Business Proposal, wrapped in the main theme of romance, presents various kinds of utopian realities so that it can be said to be a drama full of avalanches of romantic Simulacra that creates a utopian romance. Fenomena Hallyu merupakan fenomena Gelombang Korea yang tercipta karena makin canggihnya teknologi media massa. Hallyu memengaruhi peradaban global dengan berbagai macam produk media massa, termasuk salah satunya serial drama Korea dengan mengusung tema romantisme. Romantisme yang diusung dalam drama Korea ini, tidak bisa lepas dari apa yang disebut oleh Jean Baudrillard sebagai Simulacra (realitas semu) yang kelak akan menjadi sebuah hiperrealita ketika realitas semu itu diyakini menjadi lebih riil daripada realita itu sendiri. Serial drama Korea A Business Proposal menjadi salah satu contoh drama yang menyajikan bentuk romantisme utopis (romantisme semu). Konsep romantisme dibangun sedemikian rupa sehingga memunculkan konsep romantisme yang baru yang berbeda jauh dengan realita romantisme. A Business Proposal, menyajikan konsep baru romantisme dengan citra sebagai figur ideal, aspek naturalitas romantisme, aspek hirarkis romantisme, aspek absurditas romantisme serta aspek motivasional romantisme. Penelitian ini menfokuskan pada analisa drama Korea A Business Proposal yang dirilis pada bulan Februari 2022, dalam perspektif Teori Simulacra Jean Baudrillard terutama pada konsep romantisme atau hubungan romantis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, drama Korea A Business Proposal dengan dibalut tema pokok romantisme, menyuguhkan berbagai macam realita utopis sehingga dapat dikatakan sebagai drama yang penuh dengan longsoran Simulacra romantisme yang menciptakan sebuah romantisme utopis.

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A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

Rosana

2022

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“…Focusing on the experience of novel reading, M. Angélica Thumala Olave shows how novels can facilitate deep evaluations of moral and ethical matters that reach and go beyond individual self-realization (Thumala Olave, 2018, 2020). In a similar vein, Anna Michelson finds that romance fiction novels act as an ‘aesthetic public sphere’: a space where real engagement with politics can occur, whether it be on political issues that are incorporated into the narrative or with political sentiments of hope and utopia (Michelson, 2021). Departing from the experience of novel reading, Jan Váňa (2021) has focused on the aesthetic affordances in fiction novels, proposing that they create an ‘iconic experience of reading’ which mediates and amplifies novels’ underlying social knowledge.…”

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Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair

Dong

2022

Cultural Sociology

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Despite being one of the most influential forms of media, cinema has yet to be theorized as a communicative institution of the civil sphere. Contrary to commonsense understandings of cinema as a medium for purifying representations of civil sphere ideals, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that opens up the black box of cinematic performance and theorizes processes of civil interpretation and evaluation: the cinematic gap. The cinematic gap describes an experiential space afforded by the medium’s fictional nature. Because cinema is ‘just fiction’, viewers are distanced from the ‘real civil sphere’ and permitted a space for thoughtful rumination on a cinematic performance’s presentation of civil sphere matters that is less reductive, more thoughtful, and more empathetic. As viewers can then apply these insights on the real civil sphere, the cinematic gap provides a space for thoughtful civil engagement and pathways to civil repair. This paper also identifies components of the cinematic gap which determine its ‘size’ – i.e., degree of distancing from the real civil sphere – as genre treatment and grounding in social reality. This theory is generated from responses to the 2019 Korean film Parasite, a highly successful black comedy-thriller that deploys and subverts commentary on class inequality.

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Experiencing the public sphere through the eyes of urban tourists in Tehran

Korani

Shafiei

2022

IJTC

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Purpose This paper aims to find out how tourists in Tehran experience its public areas and pursue two main purposes. The first is to understand the characteristics of the public sphere in Tehran and the second is to discover a way in which the public sphere can play a role in facilitating urban tourism in Tehran. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used in this study is qualitative and phenomenological. In-depth interviews with 26 participants were used to collect data. The interviews were then transcribed, and Maxqda software was used to analyze them. Findings The findings show that the public sphere is a useful tool to discover and explain how to talk and act in different places in Tehran. This sphere is evolving over time, from access to dialogue and finally to action. Although it is not possible to draw a clear line between the different levels of the public sphere, it seems that tourists in Tehran have now entered the literary public sphere. Although they have made efforts, they have not been able to reach the political public sphere and public action. The most important obstacles are the government and the citizens of Tehran. Originality/value This paper is unique about the connection between the public sphere and urban tourism. The public sphere is a manifestation of the principles of reciprocity and critical debate in the city and a space for understanding through public debate. The public sphere is also a space for equality, rationality and mutual understanding between individuals and reasoning based on speech exchange. Roles that, if given to tourists, could change tourism policy in Iran.

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The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere

Cited by 3 publications

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A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair

Experiencing the public sphere through the eyes of urban tourists in Tehran

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