Describe and apply a range of theoretical and historical perspectives on Asian popular culture.

Your reflection must make direct reference to relevant theories, approaches, concepts and/or debates presented in the first 5 weeks of the course. Your reflection should also refer to a specific Asian popular cultural form, product/ object or practice to support your argument. Appropriate and relevant examples will be discussed during the course, but examples could include a favourite Japanese soapie, Korean pop song, Asian film genre, or sub-cultural/fan practice.Criteria:The task aligns with the following course learning objectives:•Identify issues and debates around how popular culture is constructed, marketed and consumed in Asia.•Describe and apply a range of theoretical and historical perspectives on Asian popular culture.•Discuss the local and global aspects of culture with reference to Asian social, economic and political contexts.•Illustrate and analyse the relationship of popular culture to the practice of the everyday and ordinary within Asia.•Identify, evaluate and critically analyse cultural, historical and theoretical practices which contextualise your professional practice and further study.-Reflective essays are typically broader than research essays. You are often trying to engage with the course as a whole, addressing key course themes and using relevant key readings to analyse a part of your professional/personal experience. But make sure you clearly outline the specific focus of your reflective analysis and how you plan to explore it.A reflective essay is more informal and personal than a typical essay. It can:- Reflect on your learning process and the development of your understanding, ideas and insights during (or because of) the course- Reflect on the content of the course in relation to your own experiences and identity.- Apply and analyse key issues discussed in the course and/or readings, including how they reinforce or challenge your earlier understandings-Your reflective analysis needs to show evidence of research AND understanding of the field or discipline, using appropriate academic language and theoretical terminology derived from the course and your other studies. – You will be provided relevant reference information each week and are NOT expected to do additional research for this task. However, you will sometimes need to find and access reading materials through the library. You are encouraged to use other relevant academic-critical sources where you think this is valuable, but this is not an essential requirement to achieve a good grade.- this is a RESEARCH task, so provide evidence of your research by explicitly talking about the ideas behind your analysis, and where/who they come from. Although this type of writing is NOT conventionally ‘academic’, you must still attribute and reference all primary and secondary sources. This is a key academic and work research skill. Your reflections must adhere to academic expectations to reference all key ideas, quotations, paraphrasing, images and audio visual sources.I have attached readings, and an example an essay given to us to use for structure and reference.