{"product_id":"introducing-japanese-popular-culture-9781032298092","title":"Introducing Japanese Popular Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of \u003ci\u003eIntroducing Japanese Popular Culture \u003c\/i\u003eis a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharacters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTelevision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVideogames\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFan media and techn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: Serious Approaches to Playful Trends \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Characters \u003c\/b\u003e2. Kumamon: Japan’s Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot 3. ’Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!?’: Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Television \u003c\/b\u003e4. The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in \u003ci\u003eTokusatsu\u003c\/i\u003e Superhero Television Programs 5. Tokyo Love Story: Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas 6. The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Videogames \u003c\/b\u003e7. Nuclear Discourse in \u003ci\u003eFinal Fantasy VII\u003c\/i\u003e: Embodied Experience and Social Critique 8. Policing Youth: Boy Detectives in Japanese Visual Novel Games 9. The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Postapocalyptic Posthumanity in \u003ci\u003eTokyo Jungle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Fan Media and Technology \u003c\/b\u003e10. Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom 11. Thumb Generation Literature: The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels 12. \u003ci\u003ePurikura\u003c\/i\u003e: Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography 13. Cosplay Everywhere: Costume Diplomacy at the World Cosplay Summit 14. Hatsune Miku: Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity \u003cb\u003ePart 5: Music \u003c\/b\u003e15. Electrifying the Japanese Teenager Across Generations: The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan’s Popular Culture 16. The \"Pop Pacific\": Japanese American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music 17. AKB Business: Idols and Affective Economies in Contemporary Japan 18. In Search of Japanoise: Globalizing Underground Music 19. Korean Pop Music in Japan: Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea in the Popular Culture Realm \u003cb\u003ePart 6: Popular Cinema \u003c\/b\u003e20. The Prehistory of Soft Power: Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan 21. The Rise of Japanese Horror Films: \u003ci\u003eYotsuya Ghost Story\u003c\/i\u003e (Yotsuya Kaidan), Demonic Men, and Victimized Women 22. V-Cinema: How Home Video Revitalized Japanese Film and Mystified Film Historians \u003cb\u003ePart 7: Anime \u003c\/b\u003e23. Apocalyptic Animation: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, \u003ci\u003eGodzilla\u003c\/i\u003e, and Baudrillard 24. Toy Stories: Robots and Magical Girls in Anime Marketing 25. The World According to Ghibli, or How a Small Japanese Animation Studio Became a Global Phenomenon 26. Condensing the Media Mix: \u003ci\u003eThe Tatami Galaxy\u003c\/i\u003e’s Multiple Possible Worlds \u003cb\u003ePart 8: Manga \u003c\/b\u003e27. A Jew and a Nazi Walk into an \u003ci\u003eIzakaya\u003c\/i\u003e: Tezuka Osamu’s Holocaust Manga 28. \u003ci\u003eGekiga\u003c\/i\u003e, or Japanese Alternative Comics: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture 29. The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber: Gender-Bending, Boys’ Love and Other \u003ci\u003eShōjo\u003c\/i\u003e Manga Tropes in \u003ci\u003eŌoku \u003c\/i\u003efor Yoshinaga Fumi 30. Cyborg Empiricism: The Ghost Is Not in the Shell \u003cb\u003ePart 9: Spectacles and Competitions \u003c\/b\u003e31. \u003ci\u003eHanabi\u003c\/i\u003e: The Cultural Significance of Fireworks in Japan 32. \u003ci\u003eKamishibai\u003c\/i\u003e: The Fantasy Space of the Urban Street Corner 33. Making A Game of Their Own: Baseball as Japan’s National Sport 34. Pop Go the Games: Japanese Popular Culture and Politics at the Olympics \u003cb\u003ePart 10: Sites \u003c\/b\u003e35. Shibuya: Reflective Identity in Transforming Urban Space 36. Akihabara: Promoting and Policing ‘Otaku’ in ‘Cool Japan’ 37. Japan Lost and Found: Modern Ruins as Debris of the Economic Miracle \u003cb\u003ePart 11: Fashion \u003c\/b\u003e38. Cute Fashion: The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of \u003ci\u003eKawaii \u003c\/i\u003e39. Made in Japan: A New Generation Fashion Designers \u003cb\u003ePart 12: Contemporary Art \u003c\/b\u003e40. Superflat Life 41. Aida Makoto: Notes from an Apathetic Continent 42. The Art of Upcycling in the Set Inland Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018955718999,"sku":"9781032298092","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032298092.jpg?v=1750778811","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/introducing-japanese-popular-culture-9781032298092","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}