Contemporary Japan and popular culture
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Contemporary Japan and popular culture
（ConsumAsiaN book series）
Curzon, 1996
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An interdisciplinary collection of essays by Asian, American and European scholars, which takes up both the newer and traditional debates in cultural theory while relating the study of the popular to the rhetoric that specifically surrounds the issue of a Japanese national identity in the age of globalization. The volume explores a wide range of cultural practices - including popular literature, film, television, fashion, music and advertising - and the methods for analysing them.
Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture is of interest to both teachers and students of modern Japan and cultural studies world-wide.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, John W. Treat
- Murakami Haruki's 1980s, Aoki Tamotsu
- body raiders - performative identity in Japanese popular culture, Sandra Buckley
- imaginings in the Empires of the Sun - Japanese mass culture in Asia, Leo Ching
- "Finally, I reach to Africa" - Ryuichi Sakamoto sound(ing) Japan(ese), Brian Currid
- popular culture from Japan - karaoke in Asia, Kawasaki Ken'ichi
- in pursuit of perfection - the transportation of signs and discourse of cars in two advertising campaigns, Brian Moeran
- the making of romance fiction in Japan, Chieko Mulhern
- panic sites - the Japanese imagination of disaster from "Godzilla" to "Akira", Susan J. Napier
- Japanese daytime television, popular culture and ideology, Andrew Painter
- race and reflexivity - the black other in contemporary Japanese mass culture, John Russell
- fashion trends, Japonisme and postmodernism, or "what is so Japanese about 'commes des garcons?'", Lise Skov
- mournful tears and "sake" - the postwar myth of Misora Hibari, Alan Tansman
- Yoshimoto Banana writes home - the Shojo in Japanese popular culture, John Whittier Treat.
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