The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138606692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Mark McLelland

Opis

This book identify key challenges in using Japanese popular culture materials in research and teaching. Issues covered include the availability of unofficially translated and distributed Japanese material; the emphasis on adult-themes, violence, and under-age characters; and the discrepancies in legislation and ratings systems across the world. 

O autorze

Mark McLelland is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia and a former Toyota Visiting Professor of Japanese at the University of Michigan, USA. His recent publications include Love, Sex and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation (2012); and The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia, edited with Vera Mackie (Routledge, 2015).