Shōjo across media : exploring "girl" practices in contemporary Japan

Author(s)

• Berndt, Jaqueline
• Nagaike, Kazumi
• 大城, 房美 オオギ, フサミ

Bibliographic Information

Shōjo across media : exploring "girl" practices in contemporary Japan

Jaqueline Berndt, Kazumi Nagaike, Fusami Ogi, editors

（East Asian popular culture）

Palgrave Macmillan, c2019

• : [hbk.]

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shojo 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 shojo 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 shojo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shojo 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 shojo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shojo 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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Shojo Manga 1. Romance of the Taisho School Girl in Shojo Manga: Here Comes Miss Modern (Alisa Freedman) 2. Redefining Shojo and Shonen Manga through Language Patterns (Giancarla Unser-Schutz) 3. Shojo Manga Beyond Shojo Manga: The "Female Mode of Address" in Kabukumon (Olga Antononoka) Part II: Shojo beyond Manga 4. Practicing Shojo in Japanese New Media and Cyberculture: Analyses of the Cell Phone Novel and Dream Novel (Kazumi Nagaike and Raymond Langley) 5. The Shojo in the Rojo: Enchi Fumiko's Representation of the Rojo Who Refused to Grow Old (Sohyun Chun) 6. Mediating Otome in the Discourse of War Memory: Complexity of Memory-Making through Postwar Japanese War Films (Kaori Yoshida) 7. Shojo in Anime: Beyond the Object of Men's Desire(Akiko Sugawa-Shimada) Part III: Shojo Performances 8. A Dream Dress for Girls: Milk, Fashion and Shojo Identity (Masafumi Monden) 9. Sakura ga meijiru-Unlocking the Shojo Wardrobe: Cosplay, Manga, 2.5D Space(Emerald L. King) 10. Multilayered Performers: The Takarazuka Musical Revue as Media (Sonoko Azuma, Translated by Raymond Langley and Nick Hall) 11. Sounds and Sighs: "Voice Porn" for Women (Minori Ishida, Translated by Nick Hall) Part IV: Shojo Fans 12. From Shojo to Bangya(ru): Women and Visual Kei (Adrienne Johnson) 13. Shojo Fantasies of Inhabiting Cool Japan: Reimagining Fukuoka Through Shojo and Otome Ideals with Cosplay Tourism(Craig Norris) 14. Seeking an Alternative: "Male" Shojo Fans since the 1970s (Patrick W. Galbraith)

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Details

• NCID: BB27995622
• ISBN:
  • 9783030014841
• LCCN: 2018962754
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cham
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 397 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GT2540
  • DC23 : 305.230820952
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Girls -- Japan
  • LCSH : Girls in mass media
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB21927889