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Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture

Author : Richard Gid Powers
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture written by Richard Gid Powers and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-06-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the editor's inability to find a suitable book for teaching the subject, this is a welcome title. . . . a fine contribution in a field where works in English are seriously lacking. Choice The Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture provides a convenient and efficient guide to the prevalent ways of life, recreations, and artistic creations of contemporary Japan. Designed for the general reader as well as the specialist in Japanese culture. The areas explored are those that have proven to be of durable interest to the Japanese, such as sports, science fiction, and popular music, as well as passing fads and fancies. The extremely readable essays, contributed by specialists in the field, provide a wealth of interesting information, including a survey of the historical development of the topic under discussion, with special attention paid to the most useful published works in the field, followed by a guide to the research collections and reference works that should be consulted by those wishing to deepen their knowledge of the subject. Exploring the most salient aspects of Japanese popular culture, the chapters include such topics as popular architecture, new religions, popular performing arts, film, television, comics, and mystery literature. The editor's introduction suggests that the study of popular culture as a discipline with its own unique subject matter and methodology represents a form of protest against the concept of culture as a selective tradition consisting of the best that has been thought and said. This comprehensive survey of Japanese popular culture will be an essential additon to all libraries and a useful resource in the study of popular culture, sociology, Japanese history and culture, humanities, communications, and journalism.

Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition

Author : Forum Mithani
Publisher : Handbooks on Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 : 9789463728898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition written by Forum Mithani and published by Handbooks on Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well known or studied. Organized into five thematic sections, the chapters span a diverse range of cultural genres, including contemporary film and television, postwar cinema, advertising, popular fiction, men's magazines, manga and anime, karaoke and digital media. They address issues critical to contemporary Japanese society: the politicization of history, authenticity and representation, constructions of identity, trauma and social disaffection, intersectionality and trans/nationalism. Drawing on methods and approaches from a range of disciplines, the chapters make explicit the interconnections between these areas of research and map out possible trajectories for future inquiry. As such, the handbook will be of value to both novice scholars and seasoned researchers, working within and/or beyond the Japanese media studies remit.

Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture

Author : Richard Gid Powers
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture

Author : Dolores P. Martinez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521637299
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture written by Dolores P. Martinez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology.

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

Author : Victoria Bestor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136736263
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society written by Victoria Bestor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, the environment, race and ethnicity, and urban life, to popular culture and electronic media. Written by an international team of Japan experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into Japanese culture and society. As such, the Handbook will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in all things Japanese. Students, teachers and professionals alike will benefit from the broad ranging discussions, useful links to online resources and suggested reading lists. The Handbook will be of interest across a wide range of disciplines including Japanese Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies in general.

Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture

Author : Timothy J. Craig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317467213
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture written by Timothy J. Craig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating illustrated look at various forms of Japanese popular culture: pop song, jazz, enka (a popular ballad genre of music), karaoke, comics, animated cartoons, video games, television dramas, films and "idols" -- teenage singers and actors. As pop culture not only entertains but is also a reflection of society, the book is also about Japan itself -- its similarities and differences with the rest of the world, and how Japan is changing. The book features 32 pages of manga plus 50 additional photos, illustrations, and shorter comic samples.

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture

Author : Alisa Freedman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000864170
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Japanese Popular Culture written by Alisa Freedman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of 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 covers: Characters Television Videogames Fan media and technology Music Popular cinema Anime Manga Spectacles and competitions Sites of popular culture Fashion Contemporary art. Written in an accessible style with ample description and analysis, this textbook is essential reading for students of Japanese culture and society, Asian media and popular culture, globalization, and Asian Studies in general. It is a go-to handbook for interested readers and a compendium for scholars.

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media

Author : Fabienne Darling-Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317422929
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media written by Fabienne Darling-Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media is a comprehensive study of the key contemporary issues and scholarly discussions around Japanese media. Covering a wide variety of forms and types from newspapers, television and fi lm, to music, manga and social media, this book examines the role of the media in shaping Japanese society from the Meiji era’s intense engagement with Western culture to our current period of rapid digital innovation. Featuring the work of an international team of scholars, the handbook is divided into five thematic sections: The historical background of the Japanese media from the Meiji Restoration to the immediate postwar era. Japan’s national and political identity imagined and negotiated through diff erent aspects of the media, including Japan’s ‘lost decade’ of the 1990s and today’s ‘post- Fukushima’ society. The representation of Japanese identities, including race, gender and sexuality, in contemporary media. The role of Japanese media in everyday life. The Japanese media in a broader global context. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of use to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, Asian media and Japanese popular culture.

Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture

Author : Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317285018
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture written by Koichi Iwabuchi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products have led to the construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’. This is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the national cultures, and generates transnational co-production and reinvention. As East Asian popular culture becomes a global force, it is increasingly important for us to understand the characteristics of contemporary East Asian popular culture, and in particular its transnational nature. In this handbook, the contributors theorize East Asian experiences and reconsider Western theories on cultural globalization to provide a cutting-edge overview of this global phenomenon. The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture will be of great interest to students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines, including: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies in general.

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture

Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Weatherhill
ISBN 13 : 9780834803800
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture written by Mark Schilling and published by Weatherhill. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling provides an encyclopedic compendium of books, movies, music, comedians, and cultural scandals that have had the greatest impact in Japan. Thus, for the outsider, The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture is an insider's guide to post-war Japan. Not content to simply catalog his entries, Schilling provides real depth and analysis in his articles, opening up Japan's rich pop heritage to the world at large.

Language and Popular Culture in Japan

Author : Brian Moeran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136916822
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Language and Popular Culture in Japan written by Brian Moeran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was originally published it was the first work of its kind to examine the way in which language is used to express the ‘myth’ of advertising slogans and other popular cultural forms. 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 uphold the well-known ideologies of ‘selflessness’, ‘diligence’, ‘compliance’ and ‘co-operation’ typically associated with the Japanese. Ultimately, the book poses the question: are those whom we call the Japanese ‘real’ people in their own right, or merely a nation acting out a part written for them by Western civilisation?

A History of Popular Culture in Japan

Author : E. Taylor Atkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474258579
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book A History of Popular Culture in Japan written by E. Taylor Atkins and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst which has been thought and said? : Defining popular culture -- Floating worlds : the birth of popular culture in Japan -- Delicate dancing : early modern Japan's culture wars -- Popular culture as subject and object of Meiji modernization -- Cultural living : cosmopolitan modernism in imperial Japan -- Entertaining empire : popular culture as a "technology of imperialism" -- "Our spirit against their steel" : mobilizing culture for war -- Democracy, monstrosity, and pensive prosperity : postwar pop -- Millennial Japan as dream factory -- Afterword : Contemplating cool.

Regionalizing Culture

Author : Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824839064
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Regionalizing Culture written by Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious work provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded study of the production, circulation, and reception of Japanese popular culture in Asia. While many studies typically employ an interactive approach that focuses on the “meaning” of popular culture from an anthropological or cultural studies point of view, Regionalizing Culture emphasizes that the consumption side and contextual meaning of popular culture are not the only salient factors in accounting for its proliferation. The production side and organizational aspects are also important. In addition to presenting individual case studies, the book offers a big-picture view of the dramatic changes that have taken place in popular culture production and circulation in Asia over the past two decades. The author has gleaned information from primary sources in Japanese, English, and other languages; research visits to Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Seoul; as well as insights of people with firsthand knowledge from within the cultural industries. From this broad range of source, he develops an integrative political economic approach to popular culture. Regionalizing Culture offers a dialectical look at the organization of cultural production, primarily at the structure and control of cultural industries, interconnections between companies and production networks, and relations between the business sector and the state. It traces the rise of Japan as a popular culture powerhouse and the expansion of its cultural industries into Asian markets. It looks as well at the creation of markets for Japanese cultural commodities since the late 1980s, the industrial and normative impact that Japanese cultural industries have on the structure of the local cultural industries, and the wider implications these processes have for the Asian region. The growing popularity and importance of Japan’s popular culture will make this book a basic text for scholars and students of popular culture as well as for those interested in political economy, media and communication studies, Japanese-Asian relations, Asian studies, and international relations.

Japanese Popular Music

Author : Carolyn S. Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134179510
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Popular Music written by Carolyn S. Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive textual and aural analysis, and on anthropological fieldwork, it provides a wealth of detail, finding differences as well as similarities between the Japanese and Western pop music scenes. Carolyn Stevens shows how Japanese popular music has responded over time to Japan's relationship to the West in the post-war era, gradually growing in independence from the political and cultural hegemonic presence of America. Similarly, the volume explores the ways in which the Japanese artist has grown in independence vis-à-vis his/her role in the production process, and examines in detail the increasingly important role of the jimusho, or the entertainment management agency, where many individual artists and music industry professionals make decisions about how the product is delivered to the public. It also discusses the connections to Japanese television, film, print and internet, thereby providing through pop music a key to understanding much of Japanese popular culture more widely.

Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

Author : Matthew Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113420373X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan written by Matthew Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book argues that a key factor behind the changing nature of Japanese popular culture lies in its engagement with globalization. Essays from a team of leading international scholars illustrate this crucial interaction between the flows of Japanese popular culture and the constant development of globalization. Drawing on rich empirical content, this book looks at Japanese popular culture as it traverses international borders flowing out through such forms as manga consumption in New Zealand and flowing in through such forms as foreigners writing about Japan in Japanese and how American influences affected the formation of Japan’s gay identity. Presenting current, confronting and sometimes controversial insights into the many forms of Japanese popular culture emerging within this global context, Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan will make essential reading for those working in Japanese studies, cultural studies and international relations.

Let's Pop Culture! O(^o^)o

Author : Mukaiyama Students
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781482072501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Let's Pop Culture! O(^o^)o written by Mukaiyama Students and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem with most cultural guide books, especially those about Japan, is that they are written from a foreigner's perspective. So how can you know what they say is truly accurate? We are 1 foreign English teacher, 2 Japanese teachers of English and 200 second grade high school students from Japan and we made this book to introduce Japan's amazing culture to the world. Real students tell you about their favorite things in Japan in their own words. Don't worry, it's all in English. In this book you will find reviews and articles on everything from kimono and folding fans to cyber-hacking anime and visual kei music; from the oldest folk tale to the most recent video game. Our students tell you what is really hot in Japan right now. And the best part is that all profits go to help schools and local victims of the great earthquake of March 11th, 2011.

The End of Cool Japan

Author : Mark McLelland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317269373
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The End of Cool Japan written by Mark McLelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially illegal content which are serious problems for those teaching and researching about Japan. Despite young people’s enthusiasm for Japanese popular culture, these concerns spark debate about whether it can be judged harmful for youth audiences and could therefore herald the end of ‘cool Japan’. This collection brings together Japan specialists in order to identify key challenges in using Japanese popular culture materials in research and teaching. It addresses issues such as the availability of unofficially translated and distributed Japanese material; the emphasis on adult-themes, violence, sexual scenes and under-age characters; and the discrepancies in legislation and ratings systems across the world. Considering how these issues affect researchers, teachers, students and fans in the US, Canada, Australia, China, Japan and elsewhere in Asia, the contributors discuss the different ways in which academic and fan practices are challenged by local regulations. Illustrating from personal experience the sometimes fraught nature of teaching about ‘cool Japan’, they suggest ways in which Japanese Studies as a discipline needs to develop clearer guidelines for teaching and research, especially for new scholars entering the field. As the first collection to identify some of the real problems faced by teachers and researchers of Japanese popular culture as well as the students over whom they have a duty of care, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies and Cultural Studies.