Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415368988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 226 str.

Matthew Allen; Rumi Sakamoto

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Popular Culture and Globalisation in Japan provides exciting and fascinating insights into Japanese popular culture. It explores the Japaneseness of Japanese popular culture by focusing on the intersection of globalization and popular cultural products associated with Japan. The editors argue that there are many insides and outsides, which inform the production and consumption of Japanese popular culture, thus that the Japan in Japanese popular culture is always dislocated, contaminated and crisscrossed.

This text is clearly presented through a number of detailed case studies, each written by cross-culturally informed contributors, which propose that understanding popular culture associated with Japan be reassessed within the context of a complex matrix of relations that include multiple power-relations such as race or ethnicity, gender, class, ageism, popularity of popular culture, and the impacts of outside influences on producers and consumers of popular culture. The interdisciplinary nature of this book will appeal to both an academic and popular audience with interests in a variety of fields, and the current theoretically informed research is a welcome addition to Japanese Studies.

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Acknowledgements  Note on Japanese Names and Words  1. Introduction: Inside-Out Japan: Popular Culture and Globalization in the Context of Japan  Section 1: Reconfiguring Japan  2. Japanese Popular Culture and Postcolonial Desire for 'Asia'  3. South Park does Japan: Going Global with Chimpokomon  4. The Film Bishônen and Queer(n) Asia through Japanese Popular Culture  5. Japan Beating: The Making and Marketing of Professional Taiko Music in Australia  6. Who Reads Comics? Manga Readership among First Generation Asian Immigrants in New Zealand  Section 2: Becoming Global  7. Sportsports: Cultural Exports and Imports in Japan's Contemporary Globalization Career  8. Writing as Out/Insiders: Contemporary Japan's Ekkyô Literature in Globalization  9. Japan's Original 'Gay Boom'  10. Subcultural Unconsciousness in Japan: The War and Japanese Contemporary Artists  11. The 'Most Crucial Education': Saotome Katsumoto, Globalization and Japanese Anti-War Thought  12. Loochoo Beat(s): Music In and Out of 'Okinawa'

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Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto