ISBN:
9783839426005
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (262 S.)
Edition:
2013
Series Statement:
Edition Kulturwissenschaft 36
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Laemmerhirt, Iris-Aya Embracing differences
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Laemmerhirt, Iris-Aya, 1980 - Embracing differences
Keywords:
Cultural fusion
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Cultural fusion.
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
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Kulturaustausch.
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Transnationalisierung.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Transnationalism, Culture, Media, Japan, USA, America, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Asia
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Electronic books
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USA
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Japan
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Kulturaustausch
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Transnationalisierung
Abstract:
Biographical note: Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt teaches American Studies and British Studies at TU Dortmund University where she is a post-doctoral candidate. Her research interests are the literature of the 1940s, Transnational Studies, and representations of Hawaii in the media. Currently, she is teaching as a Fulbright SIR at UVA Wise.
Abstract:
The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects of this cross-cultural relationship. Cultural interactions are often accompanied by the term cultural imperialism, a concept that on close scrutiny turns out to be a hasty oversimplification given the contemporary cultural interaction between the U.S. and Japan. »Embracing Differences« shows that this assumption of a one-sided transfer is no longer valid. Closely investigating Disney theme parks, sushi, as well as movies, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt reveals a dialogical exchange between these two nations that has changed the image of Japan in the United States.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Embracing DifferencesTransnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Japanese Terms; Exoticism, Imagination, and the Harajuku Girls; Cultural Imperialism and Globalization; Gazing the Japanese; Transnationalism; Rethinking Japanese-American Cultural Relations; "Here Be Monsters": Early Japanese-American Cultural Exchanges; Japanese Monsters and American Barbarians; Reciprocal Cultural Influences; Yōkoso Mickey Mouse! Disney in Japan; American Fantasyscapes; The Disneyfication of America and the World?; Tokyo Disney Resort
Description / Table of Contents:
Wonderland Re-VisitedA Taste of Difference: Sushi in the United States; Of Rice and Meat: A Short History of Japanese and American Food Relations; Japanese Food in Culinary Texts; Enter the Dragon Roll: Consuming Sushi in the United States; Imagining Sushi Otherwise; Could We Have a Geisha in This Scene? Transnational Depictions of Japan in Contemporary Hollywood Movies; Flashback: Orientalizing Japan in Movies; Subtitles and Subversion: Transnational Cinema; The Last Samurai: A Masculine East; Tokyo Irasshaimase! Two Americans Lost in Translation
Description / Table of Contents:
Letters from Iwo Jima: Japanese Writings - American PicturesPreview: A Transnational Turn in Hollywood; Conclusion; Bibliography; Internet Sources; Movies; Miscellaneous; TV Series; Music; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.14361/transcript.9783839426005
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