New Kings of the World, Fatima Bhutto
New Kings of the World, Fatima Bhutto
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New Kings of the World
Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop

Author: Fatima Bhutto

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2019

Synopsis

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

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 an audiobook 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 urbanized 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.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Resh (The Book Satchel) on October 09, 2019

Rating : 4.5 This is how non fiction should be written! Even if the topic does not interest you, read it for the excellent writing. The book reads like a movie, true to the topic it explores — exploring Bollywood, mostly Shah Rukh Khan, Turkish Dizis, Korean pop culture. It is pacy, inducing wonder wi......more

Goodreads review by Anum on April 14, 2020

For a book that promised to be so cool, I was surprisingly underwhelmed by the reading experience. I think I have spent so long reading good reviews of Fatima Bhutto’s writing that I automatically assumed I would like her work; in situations such as these, when I know I have high expectations, it is......more

Goodreads review by Arun on March 13, 2020

The way that the world has looked at domination and control has changed drastically over the last few decades. Barring a few nation states rife with warfare, you do not need to roll battle tanks over the promenades of cities to actually win them over when you have the internet. A little bit of flash......more

Goodreads review by Misal on April 11, 2021

3.5 stars Let's start by saying I genuinely enjoyed reading this. It was a quick read and read very much like a long article, a detailed youtube video analysis or a final term thesis paper. It reminded me very fondly of my media studies electives at IBA and in general, of all the things I loved abou......more

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