New Kings of the World

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Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop

By Fatima Bhutto

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New Kings of the World explores a vast cultural movement rising from the East, challenging Western dominance in global popular culture. Author Fatima Bhutto profiles India's Bollywood, Turkey's dizi soap operas, and South Korea's K-Pop phenomenon, including icons like Shah Rukh Khan and viral successes such as Gangnam Style. The book examines how these new cultural forces blend modernity with tradition to captivate millions worldwide, especially those newly engaging with modern life’s complexities.
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This insightful and witty study is ideal for readers interested in global culture shifts, media studies, and contemporary pop phenomena. It appeals to those curious about intercultural dynamics and the growing influence of non-Western entertainment on the world stage.

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.

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...witty and packed with detail, this is an intercultural shot that should be heard around the world - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Bhutto carefully dissects the guts of our popular culture...essential to understand the soul of our times. - Ece Temelkuran

There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald's, and blue jeans. This is a book about these new arbiters of mass culture arising from the East - India's Bollywood films, Turkish soap opera, or dizi, and South Korean pop music. Carefully packaging not always secular modernity with traditional values in urbanised settings, they have created a new global pop culture that can be easily consumed, especially by the many millions coming late to the modern world and still negotiating its overwhelming challenges.

Acclaimed author Fatima Bhutto profiles Shah Rukh Khan, by many measures the most popular movie star in the world; goes behind the scenes of Magnificent Century, Turkey's biggest TV show, watched by upwards of 200 million people across 43 countries; and travels to South Korea to see how K-Pop started it all, and how Gangnam Style became the first YouTube video with one billion views.

A probing look at some of the shifting tides of global culture. Having borne witness to the throes of political upheaval in her birth country of Pakistan, journalist and novelist Bhutto here explores the local roots and global impact of three contemporary pop-culture game-changers: Bollywood (India), dizi (Turkey), and K-Pop (Korea). - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Fatima Bhutto is one of the most stylish, thoughtful writers in the world today. This book will make you gurgle with cultural pleasure. - Johann Hari

A delight, a must-read. Fatima Bhutto is the modern renaissance woman: after a searing memoir and an exploration of 'ISIS brides,' she turns her diagonal gaze across global pop culture, away from and beyond the lingua franca of English. The result is as effervescent as her subject matter: a hilarious and intelligent understanding of pop as primal need in contemporary life. - Ed Vulliamy

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781733623704

Publisher: Columbia Global Reports

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Columbia Global Reports

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 206

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About the Author

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of five previous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, was long listed for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction and the memoir about her father’s life and assassination, Songs of Blood and Sword, was published to acclaim. Her most recent book is The Runaways, a novel. She graduated from Barnard with a degree in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and has a masters in South Asian Government and politics from SOAS.