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Western Japaneseness: Intercultural Translations of Japan in Western Media

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648891543
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Western Japaneseness: Intercultural Translations of Japan in Western Media written by Frank Jacob and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our images of non-Western cultures are often based on stereotypes that are replicated over the years. These stereotypes often appear in popular media and are responsible for a pre-set image of otherness. The present book investigates these processes and the media representation of otherness, especially as an artificial construct based on stereotypes and their repetition, in the case of Japan. 'Western Japaneseness' thereby illustrates how the Western image of Japan in popular media is rather a construct that, in a way, replicated itself, instead of a more serious encounter with a foreign and different cultural context. This book will be of great value to students and academics who hold interest in media studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies. It will also appeal to a broader audience with interests in Japan more generally.

Western Japaneseness: Intercultural Translations of Japan in Western Media

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781648891151
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Western Japaneseness: Intercultural Translations of Japan in Western Media written by Frank Jacob and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our images of non-Western cultures are often based on stereotypes that are replicated over the years. These stereotypes often appear in popular media and are responsible for a pre-set image of otherness. The present book investigates these processes and the media representation of otherness, especially as an artificial construct based on stereotypes and their repetition, in the case of Japan. 'Western Japaneseness' thereby illustrates how the Western image of Japan in popular media is rather a construct that, in a way, replicated itself, instead of a more serious encounter with a foreign and different cultural context. This book will be of great value to students and academics who hold interest in media studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies. It will also appeal to a broader audience with interests in Japan more generally.

The Yakuza in Popular Media

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Büchner-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3963178051
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Yakuza in Popular Media written by Frank Jacob and published by Büchner-Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yakuza, Japan's traditional gangsters, are famous, especially outside Japan, where the country's criminal underworld ranks next to sushi or Godzilla when it comes to their respective fame and popularity. However, in popular media the images of the Japanese gangster vary, ranging from chivalrous Robin Hood-like characters, to violent mobsters without honor and dignity. The present volume addresses these differences, i.e. the way yakuza are presented in Japanese and Western popular media. Films and autobiographical novels, inspired by historical events or personal experiences, but also by existent and sometimes even expected stereotypes, therefore often already represent a specific image of the Japanese mafia that is more like an artificial construct than actual reality. The contributions in this book consequently intend to discuss the images of the Japanese yakuza in popular media to offer a first insight into a very important yet so far understudied topic related to the history of and existent narratives within Japan's popular culture.

The Hybrid Face

Author : Massimo Leone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003829546
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Hybrid Face written by Massimo Leone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks, the impact of COVID-19, AI systems, digital portraiture, symbolic faces in films, viral communication, alien depictions, personhood in video games, online intimacy, and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of its digital avatar, spread through a myriad of new channels and transformable through filters, post-productions, digital cosmetics, all the way to the creation of deepfakes. The digital face expresses new and largely unknown meanings, which this book explores and analyzes through an interdisciplinary but systematic approach. The volume will interest researchers, scholars, and advanced students who are interested in digital humanities, communication studies, semiotics, visual studies, visual anthropology, cultural studies, and, broadly speaking, innovative approaches about the meaning of the face in present-day digital societies.

Translation and Subjectivity

Author : Naoki Sakai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452903271
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Translation and Subjectivity written by Naoki Sakai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the schematic representation of translation, one language is rendered in contrast to another as if the two languages are clearly different and distinct. And yet, Sakai contends, such differences and distinctions between ethnic or national languages (or cultures) are only defined once translation has already rendered them commensurate. His essays thus address translation as a means of figuring (or configuring) difference.

A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness

Author : Yuko Kawai
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149859901X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness written by Yuko Kawai and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Yuko Kawai departs from the common conception of Japan as an ethnically homogenous nation. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective, examining ways to make Japanese nationhood more inclusive. Kawai analyzes a variety of communicational practices during the first two decades of the twenty-first century while situating Japaneseness in its longer historical transformation from the late nineteenth century. Kawai focuses on governmental and popular ideas of Japaneseness in light of local, global, historical, and contemporary contexts as well as in relation to a diverse array of Others in both Asia and the West.

Intercultural Communication in Japan

Author : Satoshi Toyosaki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315516926
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Communication in Japan written by Satoshi Toyosaki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However, Japan has socially, culturally, politically, and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently, this identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan’s culturally diverse groups. This book explores the discursive systems of cultural identities that regenerate the illusion of Japan as a homogeneous nation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches investigate the ways in which Japan’s homogenizing discourses are challenged and modified by counter-homogeneous message systems. They examine the discursive push-and-pull between homogenizing and heterogenizing vectors, found in domestic and transnational contexts and mobilized by various identity politics, such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, foreign status, nationality, multiculturalism, and internationalization. After offering a careful and critical analysis, the book calls for a complicating of Japan’s homogenizing discourses in nuanced and contextual ways, with an explicit goal of working towards a culturally diverse Japan. Taking a critical intercultural communication perspective, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese Culture and Japanese Society.

The Japanese in the Western Mind

Author : Perry Roy Hinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003082088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Japanese in the Western Mind written by Perry Roy Hinton and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations. Hinton considers how the West views the Japanese as an ideologically different 'other', and proposes a cultural theory of stereotypes from which to explore Western observations of the Japanese. The book explores Western socio-cultural representations of the Japanese alongside Edward Said's well-known theory of Orientalism. It examines the West's intercultural relationship with Japan, and how this has changed over time, to show how the Japanese have been represented in the Western mind throughout history, to the present day. Hinton argues that our view of other cultures is based on our own cultural expectations, which involve complex issues of meaning making and perceived cultural differences. This book foregrounds this research through accounts of Westerners about the Japanese, to reveal how cultural representations can influence the ways in which people from different cultures communicate in interaction, and how intercultural understanding or misunderstanding can arise. By reflecting on the changing Western representations of the Japanese, and how and why these have emerged, this book will be of interest to students, academics, and general readers interested in stereotypes, cultural psychology, intercultural communication, and Japanese culture and history"--

Japanese Culture and Communication

Author : Ray T. Donahue
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761812494
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Culture and Communication written by Ray T. Donahue and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook for students in Japanese, communication, or international studies, assuming no previous background in Japanese language or culture. Donahue (Japanese studies, Nagoya Gakuin U., Japan) first surveys the perceptual barriers to communicating between Japan and North America, then examines the Japanese communication style, differences in discourse, and images of the Japanese in the mass media. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Language and Popular Culture in Japan

Author : Brian Moeran
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719030413
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Language and Popular Culture in Japan written by Brian Moeran and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Othernesses of Japan

Author : Harumi Befu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othernesses of Japan written by Harumi Befu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring Japaneseness

Author : Ray T. Donahue
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Japaneseness written by Ray T. Donahue and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the Japanese nation faces an identity crisis as it attempts to contend with the misfortunes endured in the 1990s. This collection of essays attempts to address the contemporary state of what it means to be Japanese. It provides a multidisciplinary perspective.

Translating Popular Fiction

Author : Kayoko Nohara
Publisher : New Trends in Translation Studies
ISBN 13 : 9783034319638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Translating Popular Fiction written by Kayoko Nohara and published by New Trends in Translation Studies. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various options and techniques available to and used by translators when translating from English to Japanese. The work is rich in both the theory and practice of translation and contains numerous examples from popular texts, ranging from classics to detective novels to science fiction.

Cultural Difference, Media Memories

Author : Phil Hammond
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Difference, Media Memories written by Phil Hammond and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the West's long and uneasy relationship with Japan, tracing its evolution from the nineteenth century to 1995--the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the War in the Pacific. The authors question received notions of cultural difference in the discourses of politics, anthropology, and journalism. With provocative new theoretical insights into the discussion of cultural difference and original research on the media coverage of a country seen as both comic and threatening, the book will be of interest to readers in the fields of media and cultural studies, anthropology, and Japanese studies.

Transcending Stereotypes

Author : Barbara Finkelstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcending Stereotypes written by Barbara Finkelstein and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modification of the Western Approach to Intercultural Communication for the Japanese Context

Author : Eiko Tai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Modification of the Western Approach to Intercultural Communication for the Japanese Context written by Eiko Tai and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atari to Zelda

Author : Mia Consalvo
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034395
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Atari to Zelda written by Mia Consalvo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West, from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of “Japaneseness.” In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to play. But since then, fans, media, and the games industry have thought further about the “Japaneseness” of particular games. Game developers try to decide whether a game's Japaneseness is a selling point or stumbling block; critics try to determine what elements in a game express its Japaneseness—cultural motifs or technical markers. Games were “localized,” subjected to sociocultural and technical tinkering. In this book, Mia Consalvo looks at what happens when Japanese games travel outside Japan, and how they are played, thought about, and transformed by individuals, companies, and groups in the West. Consalvo begins with players, first exploring North American players' interest in Japanese games (and Japanese culture in general) and then investigating players' DIY localization of games, in the form of ROM hacking and fan translating. She analyzes several Japanese games released in North America and looks in detail at the Japanese game company Square Enix. She examines indie and corporate localization work, and the rise of the professional culture broker. Finally, she compares different approaches to Japaneseness in games sold in the West and considers how Japanese games have influenced Western games developers. Her account reveals surprising cross-cultural interactions between Japanese games and Western game developers and players, between Japaneseness and the market.