Introducing Japanese popular culture / edited by Alisa Freedman and 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 Japan...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing Japanese Popular Culture : Serious Approaches to Playful Delights / Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade
- Part I. Characters. Kumamon : Japan's Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot / Debra J. Occhi
- Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!? : Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad / Christine R. Yano
- Part II. Television. The Grotesque Hero : Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs / Hirofumi Katsuno
- Tokyo Love Story : Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas / Alisa Freedman
- The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television / Kendall Heitzman
- Part III. Videogames. Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII : Embodied Experience and Social Critique / Rachael Hutchinson
- The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth : Post-Apocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle / Kathryn Hemmann
- Part IV. Fan Media and Technology. Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom / Mark Mclelland
- Purikura : Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography / Laura Miller
- Studio Ghibli Media Tourism / Craig Norris
- Hatsune Miku : Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity / Ian Condry
- Part V. Music. Electrifying the Japanese Teenager Across Generations : The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan's Popular Culture / Michael Furmanovsky
- The "Pop Pacific" : Japanese-American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music / Jayson Makoto Chun
- AKB Business : Idols and Affective Economics in Contemporary Japan / Patrick W. Galbraith
- In Search of Japanoise : Globalizing Underground Music / David Novak
- Korean Pop Music in Japan : Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea in the Popular Culture Realm / Eun-Young Jung
- Part VI. Popular Cinema.The Prehistory of Soft Power : Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan / William M. Tsutsui
- The Rise of Japanese Horror Films : Yotsuya Ghost Story (Yotsuya Kaidari), Demonic Men, and Victimized Women / Kyoko Hirano
- V-Cinema : How Home Video Revitalized Japanese Film and Mystified Film Historians / Tom Mes
- Part VII. Anime. Apocalyptic Animation : In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and Baudrillard / Alan Cholodenko
- Toy Stories : Robots and Magical Girls in Anime Marketing / Renato Rivera Rusca
- Condensing the Media Mix : The Tatami Galaxy's Multiple Possible Worlds / Marc Steinberg
- Part VIII. Manga. Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics : The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture / Shige (CJ) Suzuki
- Sampling Girls' Culture : An Analysis of Shōjo Manga Magazines / Jennifer Prough
- The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber : Gender-Bending, Boys' Love, and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ōoku / Deborah Shamoon
- Cyborg Empiricism : The Ghost Is Not in the Shell / Thomas Lamarre
- Part IX. Popular Literature. Murakami Haruki's Transnational Avant-Pop Literature / Rebecca Suter
- Thumb-Generation Literature : The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels / Alisa Freedman
- Part X. Sites and Spectacles. Hanabi : The Cultural Significance of Fireworks in Japan / Damien Liu-Brennan
- Kamishibai : The Fantasy Space of the Urban Street Corner / Sharalyn Orbaugh
- Shibuya : Reflective Identity in Transforming Urban Space / Izumi Kuroishi
- Akihabara : Promoting and Policing "Otaku" in "Cool Japan" / Patrick W. Galbraith
- Japan Lost and Found : Modern Ruins as Debris of the Economic Miracle / Tong Lam
- Part XI. Fashion. Cute Fashion : The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii / Toby Slade
- Made in Japan : A New Generation of Fashion Designers / Hiroshi Narumi
- Clean-Cut : Men's Fashion Magazines, Male Aesthetic Ideals, and Social Affinity in Japan / Masafumi Monden
- Part XII. Contemporary Art. Superflat Life / Tom Looser
- Aida Makoto : Notes from an Apathetic Continent / Adrian Favell
- Art from "What is Already There" on Islands in the Seto Inland Sea / James Jack.