ISBN:
9781000864168
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (586 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.0952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Japanese Conventions -- Chapter 1 Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: Serious Approaches to Playful Trends -- Part I Characters -- Chapter 2 Kumamon: Japan's Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot -- Chapter 3 Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!?: Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad -- Part II Television -- Chapter 4 The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs -- Chapter 5 Tokyo Love Story: Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas -- Chapter 6 The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television -- Part III Videogames -- Chapter 7 Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII: Embodied Experience and Social Critique -- Chapter 8 Policing Youth: Boy Detectives in Japanese Mystery Games -- Chapter 9 The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Post-Apocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle -- Part IV Fan Media and Technology -- Chapter 10 Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom -- Chapter 11 Thumb-Generation Literature: The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels -- Chapter 12 Purikura: Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography -- Chapter 13 "Cosplay Everywhere": Costume Diplomacy at the World Cosplay Summit -- Chapter 14 Hatsune Miku: Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity -- Part V Music -- Chapter 15 Electrifying the Japanese Teenager across Generations: The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan's Popular Culture -- Chapter 16 The "Pop Pacific": Japanese American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music -- Chapter 17 AKB Business: Idols and Affective Economics in Contemporary Japan -- Chapter 18 In Search of Japanoise: Globalizing Underground Music.
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