Topic: Global Circulation of Asian Popular Culture – Final essay
Description:
Cultural similarity and distance are favourably but differently perceived by audiences in East Asia in their consumption of media texts from neighbouring countries. A further step – particularly evident in TV Drama series – is to produce a local remake of such media texts. A remake can be a simple transposition from one setting to another, or it can become an original creative work. Explore the possibility for creative adaptation in selected scenes from a drama series that originated in one country and has been remade in another (or in some cases two or three others).
[Please ensure that your chosen examples are available with English subtitles, and give full details of your sources.]