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Author : Masami Toku
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886226104
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Shojo Manga! Girl Power! written by Masami Toku and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Masami Toku
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131761075X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
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 385 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.
Author : Jennifer S. Prough
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860578
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Jennifer S. Prough and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Shojo manga (girls’ comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls’ culture throughout the postwar era. In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. With their glittery pastel covers and focus on human relationships and romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender—as indeed are almost all manga titles, magazines, and publishing divisions. Drawing on two years of fieldwork on the production of shojo manga, Prough analyzes shojo manga texts and their magazine contexts to explain their distinctive appeal, probe the gendered dynamics inherent in their creation, and demonstrate the feedback system that links producers and consumers in a continuous cycle of "affective labor." Each chapter focuses on one facet of shojo manga production (stories, format, personnel, industry dynamics), providing engaging insights into this popular medium. Tacking between story development, interactive magazine features, and relationships between male editors and female artists, Prough examines the concrete ways in which shojo manga reflect, refract, and fabricate constructions of gender, consumption, and intimacy. Straight from the Heart thus weaves together issues of production and consumption, human relations, and gender to explain the unique world of shojo manga and to interpret its dramatic cultural and economic success on a national—and increasingly global—scale.
Author : Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473923
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Age of Shōjo written by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the pages of girls' magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions, and their shōjo characters' "immature" qualities and social marginality gave them the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Dollase details the transformation of Japanese girls' fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s by discussing the adaptation of Western stories, including Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls' fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and the new era of empowered postwar fiction. The book highlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko's dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo's social realism, Morita Tama's autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize–winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. Using girls' perspectives, these authors addressed social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality.
Author : Mari Yoshino
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
ISBN 13 : 1642120375
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Peach Heaven written by Mari Yoshino and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years have passed since Momoko and Ranmaru got married. Now, Momoko’s little brother Kota is in his second year of high school. To no one’s surprise, nothing has happened between him and his only female friend, the entertainer Juria. But at his job as a photographer’s assistant, Kota finds himself very attracted to an older woman named Nanako. This volume also includes a one-off love story about a boy who’s a wizard with an abacus and a girl who’s bad at math. Don’t miss the final volume of the hit erotic romantic comedy Peach Heaven!
Author : Kathryn Hemmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030180956
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze written by Kathryn Hemmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The female gaze is used by writers and readers to examine narratives from a perspective that sees women as subjects instead of objects, and the application of a female gaze to male-dominated discourses can open new avenues of interpretation. This book explores how female manga artists have encouraged the female gaze within their work and how female readers have challenged the male gaze pervasive in many forms of popular media. Each of the chapters offers a close reading of influential manga and fancomics to illustrate the female gaze as a mode of resistant reading and creative empowerment. By employing a female gaze, professional and amateur creators are able to shape and interpret texts in a manner that emphasizes the role of female characters while challenging and reconfiguring gendered themes and issues.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Shojo Manga ! Girl Power ! written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trina Robbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781417723744
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (237 download)
Download or read book From Girls to Grrrlz written by Trina Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Betty and Veronica to Slutburger and Art Babe, "Girls to Grrrlz" gives chronological commentary (with attitude) on the authors, artists, trends, and sassy, brassy characters featured in comic books for the last half century. 180 illustrations, 150 in color.
Author : Deborah Michelle Shamoon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824836382
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Passionate Friendship written by Deborah Michelle Shamoon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of girls print culture in twentieth-century Japan by examining the narrative and visual aesthetics of prewar girls magazines. It explores the ways in which that prewar culture influenced the development of postwar girls comics.
Author : Chiho Saito
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 197472316X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution written by Chiho Saito and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utena has saved Anthy by defeating Akio in the final duel, but in doing so she has vanished from the world. Now the student council members at Ohtori Academy find themselves in their own revolutions. -- VIZ Media
Author : Keiko Ishihara
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1421590271
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Heiress and the Chauffeur, Vol. 1 written by Keiko Ishihara and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sayaka wears a crimson ribbon that signals she is at the top of her class, and her classmates all revere her. So when Narutaki ignores decorum and breaks school rules to protect Sayaka, will she stand by him or dismiss him as the school demands? -- VIZ Media
Author : Kazune Kawahara
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1421578395
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)
Download or read book My Love Story!!, Vol. 1 written by Kazune Kawahara and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takeo can hardly believe it when he crosses paths with Yamato again, and he finds himself falling in love with her... But with handsome Sunakawa around, does Takeo even stand a chance? -- VIZ Media
Author : Megumi Morino
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
ISBN 13 : 1682339971
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty written by Megumi Morino and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AWAKENING High schooler Tetsu Misato is hardworking, frugal, and easily scared, but he commits to a part-time job at the mansion on the hill—the one that’s rumored to be haunted. As he toils away, he notices a building separate from the estate, and the mysterious girl who lives within it: Shizu Karasawa. Tetsu slowly becomes enchanted by Shizu’s lonely smile, but by their second encounter, he quickly finds himself in over his head. There’s an unsettling feeling he can’t quite shake, but there’s love there, too.
Author : Saito Tamaki
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452916500
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Fighting Girl written by Saito Tamaki and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saitō Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Saitō, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reality to the fictional spaces she inhabits. As an object of desire for male otaku (obsessive fans of anime and manga), she saturates these worlds with meaning even as her fictional status demands her ceaseless proliferation and reproduction. Rejecting simplistic moralizing, Saitō understands the otaku’s ability to eroticize and even fall in love with the beautiful fighting girl not as a sign of immaturity or maladaptation but as a result of a heightened sensitivity to the multiple layers of mediation and fictional context that constitute life in our hypermediated world—a logical outcome of the media they consume. Featuring extensive interviews with Japanese and American otaku, a comprehensive genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl, and an analysis of the American outsider artist Henry Darger, whose baroque imagination Saitō sees as an important antecedent of otaku culture, Beautiful Fighting Girl was hugely influential when first published in Japan, and it remains a key text in the study of manga, anime, and otaku culture. Now available in English for the first time, this book will spark new debates about the role played by desire in the production and consumption of popular culture.
Author : Jaqueline Berndt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030014851
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Shōjo Across Media written by Jaqueline Berndt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shōjo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shōjo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shōjo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century—discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology—this volume shifts the focus to shōjo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shōjo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape.
Author : Yuki Shiwasu
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974701913
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Takane & Hana, Vol. 1 written by Yuki Shiwasu and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting between Takane and Hana ends in an explosive manner, and Hana is convinced that she’ll never have to see that awful Takane again. But Takane actually seems interested in Hana! Exasperated by Takane’s immature attitude, yet amused and intrigued despite herself, Hana wonders if her hilarious rivalry with Takane just might lead to love! -- VIZ Media
Author : Toni Johnson-Woods
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441107878
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Manga written by Toni Johnson-Woods and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, one had to read Japanese in order to enjoy manga. Today manga has become a global phenomenon, attracting audiences in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. The style has become so popular, in fact, that in the US and UK publishers are appropriating the manga style in a variety of print material, resulting in the birth of harlequin mangas which combine popular romance fiction titles with manga aesthetics. Comic publishers such as Dark Horse and DC Comics are translating Japanese "classics", like Akira, into English. And of course it wasn't long before Shakespeare received the manga treatment. So what is manga? Manga roughly translates as "whimsical pictures" and its long history can be traced all the way back to picture books of eighteenth century Japan. Today, it comes in two basic forms: anthology magazines (such as Shukan Shonen Jampu) that contain several serials and manga 'books' (tankobon) that collect long-running serials from the anthologies and reprint them in one volume. The anthologies contain several serials, generally appear weekly and are so thick, up to 800 pages, that they are colloquially known as phone books. Sold at newspaper stands and in convenience stores, they often attract crowds of people who gather to read their favorite magazine. Containing sections addressing the manga industry on an international scale, the different genres, formats and artists, as well the fans themselves, Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives is an important collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts, and fans, and provides a one-stop resource for all those who want to learn more about manga, as well as for anybody teaching a course on the subject.
