ISBN:
0415368987
,
9780415368988
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Asia's transformations
Parallel Title:
Print version Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
DDC:
306.0952
Keywords:
Culture and globalization
;
Popular culture
;
Japan Social life and customs
Abstract:
This exciting and fascinating text explores the 'Japanessness' of Japanese popular culture by focusing on the intersection of globalization and popular cultural products associated with Japan
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Inside-out Japan? Popular culture and globalization in the context of Japan / Matthew Allen and Rumi SakamotoJapanese popular culture and postcolonial desire for 'Asia' / Koichi Iwabuchi -- South Park does Japan : going global with Chimpokomon / Matthew Allen -- The film Bishônen and Queer(N)Asia through Japanese popular culture / Romit Dasgupta -- Japan beating : the making and marketing of professional taiko music in Australia / Hugh de Ferranti -- Who reads comics? Manga readership among first-generation Asian immigrants in New Zealand / Yukako Sunaoshi -- 'Sportsports' : cultural exports and imports in Japan's contemporary globalization career / T.J.M. Holden -- Writing as out/insiders : contemporary Japan's ekkyô literature in globalization / Rumi Sakamoto -- Japan's original 'gay boom' / Mark McLelland -- Subcultural unconsciousness in Japan : the war and Japanese contemporary artists / Yoshitaka Mouri -- The 'most crucial education' : Saotome Katsumoto, globalization and Japanese anti-war thought / Matthew Penney -- Loochoo Beat(s) : music in and out of 'Okinawa' / James E. Roberson.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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