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Global Manga

Author : Casey Brienza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131712765X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Global Manga written by Casey Brienza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside Japan, the term ’manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled ’manga’ are not translations of Japanese works but rather have been wholly conceived and created elsewhere. These comics, although often derided and dismissed as ’fake manga’, represent an important but understudied global cultural phenomenon which, controversially, may even point to a future of ’Japanese’ comics without Japan. This book takes seriously the political economy and cultural production of this so-called ’global manga’ produced throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia and explores the conditions under which it arises and flourishes; what counts as ’manga’ and who gets to decide; the implications of global manga for contemporary economies of cultural and creative labour; the ways in which it is shaped by or mixes with local cultural forms and contexts; and, ultimately, what it means for manga to be ’authentically’ Japanese in the first place. Presenting new empirical research on the production of global manga culture from scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as first person pieces and historical overviews written by global manga artists and industry insiders, Global Manga will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, Japanese studies, and popular and visual culture.

International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga

Author : Masami Toku
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317610768
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga written by Masami Toku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and researchers from both manga’s home country of Japan and abroad, looking at shojo and shojo manga’s influence both locally and globally. Finally, it presents original interviews of shojo manga-ka, or artists, who discuss their work and their views on this distinct type of popular visual culture.

Manga

Author : Toni Johnson-Woods
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826429386
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Manga written by Toni Johnson-Woods and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts, and fans, providing a definitive, one-stop Manga resource.

The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective

Author : John Steinberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047411129
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective by : John Steinberg

Download or read book The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective written by John Steinberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Volume one, Volume two of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global confl ict of the 20th century.

HELLO WORLD: The Manga

Author : Manatsu Suzuki
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1638580499
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book HELLO WORLD: The Manga written by Manatsu Suzuki and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naomi is a shy teenage boy living an ordinary life until the day a mysterious man appears--himself, from ten years in the future. Future Naomi brings a dire warning: Naomi's soon-to-be-girlfriend Ruri will be in a tragic accident not long after they start dating. Can they change the past and build a better future...or is there something more to Naomi's mission than saving one girl's life?

Accel World, Vol. 4 (manga)

Author : Reki Kawahara
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0316304514
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis Accel World, Vol. 4 (manga) by : Reki Kawahara

Download or read book Accel World, Vol. 4 (manga) written by Reki Kawahara and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, the Red Storm Princess arc reaches its dramatic climax as Haruyuki is faced with the treacherous illusions of Yellow Radio as well as the overwhelming power of the Chrome Disaster armor! Will Silver Crow, Scarlet Rain, and Cyan Pile be able to overcome this deadly onslaught of cunning and strength?

Accel World, Vol. 5 (manga)

Author : Reki Kawahara
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0316306150
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Accel World, Vol. 5 (manga) written by Reki Kawahara and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2026, a young man by the name of Kazuto Kirigaya beat Sword Art Online, a VRMMORPG that had become a death trap for its players. He would go on to participate in experimental tests of an entirely new full-dive machine. Meanwhile in 2047, a boy named Haruyuki accelerates himself in order to finish his homework just before class. But in the Accelerated World, he detects a strange tremor. Checking the matching list, he notices a most un-Burst-Linker-like name: "Kirito." It's Kirito vs. Silver Crow as two of author Reki Kawahara's protagonists clash across time and space--and that's just the beginning!

1 World Manga

Author : Annette Roman
Publisher : World Bank
ISBN 13 : 9780821367124
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book 1 World Manga written by Annette Roman and published by World Bank. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manga are Japanese-style comics or graphic novels which are very popular among young readers around the world. Teaming up with Viz, a leading English-language manga publisher, the World Bank has launched a new series of comic books, each highlighting a key development issue. The stories follow the adventures of 15-year-old Rei who discovers that the only way to become a true warrior is to understand the challenges facing the poor and disadvantaged people he befriends along the way. Rei's humorous side-kick is a wise 'spirit guide' which morphs into different animal guises as it introduces Rei to each new challenge. An appendix in each book provides further information, websites, and other resources so readers can explore the themes introduced in the story. This volume focuses on the lack of access to educational opportunities for girls in many countries through the world.

Manga, Murder and Mystery

Author : Mimi Okabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350325104
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Manga, Murder and Mystery written by Mimi Okabe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The book explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade' and Heisei era, broadly speaking. Mimi Okabe shows how detective manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address perceived youth problems but in thematically different ways.

1 World Manga, Vol. 3

Author : Annette Roman
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781421503660
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book 1 World Manga, Vol. 3 written by Annette Roman and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2006-04-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint World Bank/VIZ Media series addresses global issues through manga graphic novels targeting teenagers. The first 3 volumes focus on poverty, HIV/AIDS, and the environment. But the series' immediate appeal is the coming-of-age tale of orphaned teenager Rei, who dreams of becoming the greatest fighter in the world! Rei's trainer takes the form of various animals and, much to Rei's disappointment, strives to develop his student's mind, heart, and spirit more than his fighting technique! Though the themes are grim, the pages are full of action, romance, and even humor. The guises Rei's trainer assumes inevitably lead to misunderstandings and slapstick. Rei's pride and ambition set him up for many a fall, but throughout the series, his good heart and inability to walk away from those in need makes him an engaging and likeable protagonist who will appeal to young men and women alike.

Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies

Author : Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000778169
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies written by Dal Yong Jin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global media, the author discusses relevant theoretical frameworks as East Asian popular culture and media have shifted the contours of globalization. After overviewing Western media/cultural theories and histories, the book explores the ways in which East Asia-focused analytical frameworks are able to shift people’s understanding of globalization and media, drawing upon examples from different East Asian countries to illustrate how current cultural flows have influenced and have been influenced by a handful of dimensions. Offering an important contribution to understanding the historical trajectory and recent developments of East Asia media, this book will interest students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, cultural studies, Asian studies, politics and sociology.

The Routledge Companion to Comics

Author : Frank Bramlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317915372
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Comics written by Frank Bramlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga, comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, ethics, adaptation, and translating comics connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond. The Routledge Companion to Comics expertly organizes representative work from a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, literature, philosophy, and linguistics. More than an introduction to the study of comics, this book will serve as a crucial reference for anyone interested in pursuing research in the area, guiding students, scholars, and comics fans alike.

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands

Author : Amanda Kennell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824896874
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Alice in Japanese Wonderlands written by Amanda Kennell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have been translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English from textbooks containing Alice excerpts. Japan's internationally famous fashion vogue, Lolita, merges Alice with French Rococo style. In Japan Alice is everywhere--in manga, literature, fine art, live-action film and television shows, anime, video games, clothing, restaurants, and household goods consumed by people of all ages and genders. In Alice in Japanese Wonderlands, Amanda Kennell traverses the breadth of Alice's Japanese media environment, starting in 1899 and continuing through 60s psychedelia and 70s intellectual fads to the present, showing how a set of nineteenth-century British children's books became a vital element in Japanese popular culture. Using Japan's myriad adaptations to investigate how this modern media landscape developed, Kennell reveals how Alice connects different fields of cultural production and builds cohesion out of otherwise disparate media, artists, and consumers. The first sustained examination of Japanese Alice adaptations, her work probes the meaning of Alice in Wonderland as it was adapted by a cast of characters that includes the "father of the Japanese short story," Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; the renowned pop artist Yayoi Kusama; and the best-selling manga collective CLAMP. While some may deride adaptive activities as mere copying, the form Alice takes in Japan today clearly reflects domestic considerations and creativity, not the desire to imitate. By engaging with studies of adaptation, literature, film, media, and popular culture, Kennell uses Japan's proliferation of Alices to explore both Alice and the Japanese media environment.

Mixed Magic

Author : Anna Katrina Gutierrez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265453
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Mixed Magic written by Anna Katrina Gutierrez and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers considers retellings and adaptations from a ‘glocal’ context: a framework focused on the reciprocal and cross-cultural exchange between global processes and local practices and their potential transformative effects. The study examines an eclectic range of retellings from the East and West from the 19th century until the present, among them orientalized picturebook versions of Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard; Disney’s animated classics; Asian versions of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid; Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese; and the fantasy films of Hayao Miyazaki. Drawing on theories of globalization, cognitive narratology, subjectivity, and eastern thought, the book reveals new implications for intertextual analysis. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first sustained study of the effects of global-local and East-West interchanges on representations of self and Others in children’s literature and folklore studies.

The Sociology of Hallyu Pop Culture

Author : Vincenzo Cicchelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030842967
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Hallyu Pop Culture written by Vincenzo Cicchelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes the success of Hallyu, or the "Korean Wave” in the West, both at a macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization. This research investigates the capitalist ecosystem (formed by producers, institutions and the state), the soft power of Hallyu, and the reception among young people, using France as a case study, and placing it within the broader framework of the 'consumption of difference.' Seen by French fans as a challenge to Western pop culture, Hallyu constitutes a material of choice for understanding the cosmopolitan apprenticeships linked to the consumption of cultural goods, and the use of these resources to build youth’s biographical trajectories. The book will be relevant to researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, global studies, consumption and youth studies.

International Tourism

Author : Marie-Françoise Lanfant
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857022822
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book International Tourism written by Marie-Françoise Lanfant and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-08-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This book is one of several indications that the sociology of tourism is on the move.... these articles raise relevant important themes in the study of tourism.... The contributors to this very readable book provide valuable insights, many of which have been derived from empirical research, that should interest anyone involved in the study of international tourism. And by moving us away from polarised positions over the social impact of tourism toward more complex but also more considered perspectives they have also helped alter the agenda for future research′ - David Harrison, University of Sussex Tourism is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary life. More of us travel for pleasure than ever before, yet the social scientific literature on tourism is relatively scant. This book provides an original contribution to the field of tourist studies. The contributors to International Tourism reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v periphery, modern v traditional, macro v micro and North v South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates. Providing new insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume places tourism within the same framework as other transnational global studies.

Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels [2 volumes]

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313357471
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels [2 volumes] written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive reference ever compiled about the rich and enduring genre of comic books and graphic novels, from their emergence in the 1930s to their late-century breakout into the mainstream. At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment, Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels serves as an exhaustive exploration of the genre's history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels focuses on English-language comics—plus a small selection of influential Japanese and European works available in English—with special emphasis on the new graphic novel format that emerged in the 1970s. Entries cover influential comic artists and writers such as Will Eisner, Alan Moore, and Grant Morrison, major genres and themes, and specific characters, comic book imprints, and landmark titles, including the pulp noir 100 Bullets, the post-apocalyptic Y: The Last Man, the revisionist superhero drama, Identity Crisis, and more. Key franchises such as Superman and Batman are the center of a constellation of related entries that include graphic novels and other imprints featuring the same characters or material.