Language and popular culture in Japan / Brian Moeran.
By making use of general theories from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, media studies and semiotics, the book attempts to demystify Japanese culture as it has been hitherto presented in the West, and shows how such cultural forms as 'noodle westerns' and high-school baseball u...
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Routledge,
©1989, 2011.
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| Series: | Routledge library editions. Japan ;
v. 78. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Speak Japan, Japanspeak
- 2. Wine, language and song
- 3. Modern romantic my plan travel
- 4. Keywords and the Japanese spirit
- 5. Negotiating aesthetics
- 6. Californian car-lore
- 7. The poetics of advertising
- 8. The media mosaic
- 9. The sounds of cultural discourse
- 10. The good, the bad and the noodle western
- 11. Jidaigeki, yakuza and 'eroduction' films.