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  • Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan

    by Sharon Kinsella ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully. While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure and obedient, in training to become the obedient wife and prudent mother, in recent years less than demure young women have become central to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Adult Manga

    Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

    by Sharon Kinsella ...
    Series series ConsumAsian Series
    First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    by Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Boys Love Manga and Beyond

    History, Culture, and Community in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, James Welker ...
    Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation.In recent decades, “Boys Love” ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Japanese Visual Culture

    Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime

    by Mark W. MacWilliams ...
    Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture. Because they tell stories through visual imagery, they vault over language barriers. Well suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they ... Read more

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  • Millennial Monsters

    Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

    by Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 13 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Flash of Capital

    Film and Geopolitics in Japan

    by Eric Cazdyn, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan’s capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, Eric Cazdyn theorizes a cultural history that highlights the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders—where culture and capital ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Japanese Cinema

    Texts and Contexts

    Edited by Alastair Phillips, Julian Stringer ...
    Japanese Cinema includes twenty-four chapters on key films of Japanese cinema, from the silent era to the present day, providing a comprehensive introduction to Japanese cinema history and Japanese culture and society.Studying a range of important films, from Late Spring, Seven Samurai and In the Realm of the Senses to Godzilla, Hana-Bi and Ring, the collection includes discussion of all the major ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Paradoxical Japaneseness

    Cultural Representation in 21st Century Japanese Cinema

    by Andrew Dorman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese cinema of the early 21st century. The impact of transnational production practices on films such as Dolls (2002), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), and 13 Assassins (2010) is considered through textual and empirical analysis. The author discusses contradictory forms of cultural representation – ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The End of Japanese Cinema

    Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

    by Alexander Zahlten ...
    In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Media Theory in Japan

    Edited by Marc Steinberg, Alexander Zahlten ...
    Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretical and conceptual work on media for the first time. The essays address a wide range of topics, including the work of foundational Japanese thinkers; Japanese theories of mediation and the philosophy of media; the connections between early ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Free Women, Free Men

    Sex, Gender, Feminism

    by Camille Paglia ...
    From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism’s most outspoken, independent, and searingly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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