ISBN:
9781137283788
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Culture-Study and teaching
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the study of media, gender and celebrity, and sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, these interdisciplinary essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements.
Abstract:
Cover -- Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword: Revisiting "Idology" -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Mirror of Idols and Celebrity -- Part I Systems -- 1 The Jimusho System: Understanding the Production Logic of the Japanese Entertainment Industry -- 2 Megaspectacle and Celebrity Transgression in Japan: The Sakai Noriko Media Scandal -- 3 Through a Looking Glass Darkly: Television Advertising, Idols, and the Making of Fan Audiences -- Part II Desire -- 4 Johnny's Idols as Icons: Female Desires to Fantasize and Consume Male Idol Images -- 5 From Boys Next Door to Boys' Love: Gender Performance in Japanese Male Idol Media -- 6 The Homo Cultures of Iconic Personality in Japan: Mishima Yukio and Misora Hibari -- Part II Difference -- 7 Idol as Accidental Activist: Agnes Chan, Feminism, and Motherhood in Japan -- 8 Emotions, Desires, and Fantasies: What Idolizing Means for Yon-sama Fans in Japan -- Part II Image -- 9 Idols: The Image of Desire in Japanese Consumer Capitalism -- 10 The Virtual Idol: Producing and Consuming Digital Femininity -- Index.
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