ISBN:
9780810862494
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0810862492
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 294 pages)
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Japanification of children's popular culture
DDC:
303.48273052083
Keywords:
Children Social conditions
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United States
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Popular culture United States
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Popular culture Japan
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Children Social conditions
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Popular culture
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Popular culture
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Pop-Kultur
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Einfluss
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Children ; Social conditions
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Civilization ; Japanese influences
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Popular culture
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Kind
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
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United States Civilization
;
Japanese influences
;
Japan
;
United States
;
Japan
;
USA
;
United States Civilization
;
Japanese influences
;
United States
;
Japan
;
USA
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A variety of contributors discuss the impact of such Japanese cultural exports as anime, manga, and electronic/video games and explain why these forms of culture are so popular with many American children
Abstract:
Godzilla, the evolving monster / Dale Pike -- Reptar: the rugrats meet Godzilla / Jan Susina -- Invasion of the Japanese monsters: a home-front report / Mark I. West -- Hello Kitty in America / Kathy Merlock Jackson -- The allure of anthropomorphism in manga and Animé / Fred Patten -- We all live in a Pokémon world: animated utopia for kids / Cary Eliza -- Pokemon as theater: training the pocket monsters of self and consumerism / Mark Pizzato -- Japanese dominance of the video-game industry and the future of interactive media / Joe Wezorek -- Jet-set kids: mutation/seduction/hybridization / Derek A. Burrill -- Interviews with adolescent Animé fans / Brent Allison -- North America reactions to Yaoi / Antonia Levi -- Paradigm lost: how the rising ubiquity of all things Japanese ruined the national pastime for one American father / Bill Davis -- Two worlds, united by Animé / Elizabeth Flynn -- The cross-cultural appeal of the characters in Manga and Animé / Hiroaki Hatayama -- The censorship of Japanese Animé in America: do American children need to be protected from Dragon Ball? / Rieko Okugara -- Early Japanese animation in the United States: changing Tetsuwan Atomu to Astro Boy / Brian Ruh -- Inu Yasha: the search for the jewel of four souls in America / Nicoloe Farrell -- Folklore and gender inversion in Cardcaptor Sakura / Bill Ellis -- Anima and Animé: environmental perspectives and new frontiers in Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away / Nathalie op de Beeck.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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