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Author(s): Alisa Freedman (editor), Toby Slade (editor)
ISBN(s): 9781138852082, 1138852082
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.38 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1138852082

ISBN 13: 9781138852082 

Author: Alisa Freedman, Toby Slade 

 

Specifically designed for use on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production, as well as, politics, society, and economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it.

With contributions from an international team of scholars, representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to art history and media studies, the book’s sections include:

  • Television
  • Videogames
  • Music
  • Popular Cinema
  • Anime
  • Manga
  • Popular Literature
  • Fashion
  • Contemporary Art

Written in an accessible style by a stellar line-up of international contributors, this textbook will be essential reading for students of Japanese culture and society, Asian media and popular culture, and Asian Studies in general.

Table of contents:

Part I: Characters

1. Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
2. Kumamon: Japan’s Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot
3. Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!? Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad

Part II: Television
4. The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs
5. Tokyo Love Story: Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas
6. The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television

Part III: Videogames
7. Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII: Embodied Experience and Social Critique
8. The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Post-Apocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle

Part IV: Fan Media and Technology
9. Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom
10. Purikura: Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography
11. Studio Ghibli Media Tourism
12. Hatsune Miku: Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity

Part V: Music
13. Electrifying the Japanese Teenager Across Generations: The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan’s Popular Culture
14. The “Pop Pacific”: Japanese-American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music
15. AKB Business: Idols and Affective Economics in Contemporary Japan
16. In Search of Japanoise: Globalizing Underground Music
17. Korean Pop Music in Japan: Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea in the Popular Culture Realm

Part VI: Popular Cinema
18. The Prehistory of Soft Power: Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan
19. The Rise of Japanese Horror Films: Yotsuya Ghost Story, Demonic Men, and Victimized Women
20. V-Cinema: How Home Video Revitalized Japanese Film and Mystified Film Historians

Part VII: Anime
21. Apocalyptic Animation: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and Baudrillard
22. Toy Stories: Robots and Magical Girls in Anime Marketing
23. Condensing the Media Mix: The Tatami Galaxy’s Multiple Possible Worlds

Part VIII: Manga
24. Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture
25. Sampling Girls’ Culture: An Analysis of Shōjo Manga Magazines
26. The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber: Gender-Bending, Boys’ Love, and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ōoku
27. Cyborg Empiricism: The Ghost Is Not in the Shell

Part IX: Popular Literature
28. Murakami Haruki’s Transnational Avant-Pop Literature
29. Thumb-Generation Literature: The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels

Part X: Sites and Spectacles
30. Hanabi: The Cultural Significance of Fireworks in Japan
31. Kamishibai: The Fantasy Space of the Urban Street Corner
32. Shibuya: Reflective Identity in Transforming Urban Space
33. Akihabara: Promoting and Policing “Otaku” in “Cool Japan”
34. Japan Lost and Found: Modern Ruins as Debris of the Economic Miracle

Part XI: Fashion
35. Cute Fashion: The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii
36. Made in Japan: A New Generation of Fashion Designers
37. Clean-Cut: Men’s Fashion Magazines, Male Aesthetic Ideals, and Social Affinity in Japan

Part XII: Contemporary Art
38. Superflat Life
39. Aida Makoto: Notes from an Apathetic Continent
40. Art from “What is Already There” on Islands in the Seto Inland Sea

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