Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies (book series)
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This is a call for chapter abstracts for an upcoming edited volume exploring the cultural, narrative, musical, and global fandom implications of the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters. The volume will be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series (https://tinyurl.com/rbtm8fve), with the title K-Pop Demon Hunters as Global Phenomenon: Narrative, Performance, and Identity in Trasnational Popular Culture.
Since its streaming release on Netflix in June 2025, K-Pop Demon Hunters has been gather fans around the world, and making a significant impact in the international popular culture scene. This animated feature blends supernatural action with the glamour and pressures of the pop idol industry, presenting a highly stylized and fictionalized version of K-pop stardom through the lens of demon-fighting girl group members. As K-pop also continues to cement its place on the global cultural stage, K-Pop Demon Hunters offers a unique entry point for examining contemporary thematic currents connected to identity, performance, genre, gender, transmedia storytelling, transnational and intergenerational fandom, , representation, and pop music.
This edited collection seeks to bring together scholars from across disciplines including film and media studies, cultural studies, musicology, fandom and reception studies, Korean studies, genre studies, history, and gender studies to offer critical insights into the film and its place within the global landscape as a popular culture phenomenon.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Narrative, identity, and representation (including gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, diversity, power, inclusion, and beyond)
- Characterisation and world-building
- Animation and audio-visual aesthetics
- Genre discourses (including iconography, conventions, and hybridity)
- The body in/as performance (including choreography and combat)
- Audience and transnational/intergenerational reception
- Fandom discourses and participatory cultures (including cosplay, fan fiction, fan videos, memes, digital cultures, and beyond)
- Music, soundtrack, and performance (including analysis of the film’s original songs, choreography, vocal stylings, composition, casting, and production)
- Re-imaginings, re-interpretations, and re-enactments
- Fashion, style, and visual culture (including costumes, props, and design elements)
- Symbolism connected to folklore, mythology, the supernatural, and traditional forms of storytelling
- Broader relationships to K-pop, Korean culture, and the transnational “Korean wave”
- Celebrity, stardom, and iconicity
- Marketing, branding and merchandise
- Industry and transmedia storytelling (including cultural commodification, consumer culture, sequels, and global reach)
- Philosophical, historical, sociological, and cultural approaches to the film and its universe
The editor invites abstracts of 250-300 words on or around any of the above topics. For accepted abstracts, a quick turnaround for chapter submission and final volume publication will be expected. Final essays will be 5,000 words in length.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st November 2026. Please email your abstracts (together with a short bio, 150 words max) for consideration to: Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell, lorna.piatti-farnell@sae.ac.nz
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