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CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN ASIAN STUDIES

Allen Matthew

Oprawa:
MIĘKKA

Wydawca:
Taylor & Francis

Data premiery:
2014-06-25

ISBN:
9780415827898

7 848,75 PLN
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Opis produktu

Japanese popular culture has developed in many unexpected and fascinating ways. From contemporary pop cultures beginnings in the shadow of the Second World War and the earlier China campaign Japans sense of identity has been contested challenged reconsidered restructured and revived through multiple popular media. Pop culture though has always occupied a singular place in Japans expression of selfhood and otherness providing vicarious experiences of life within Japan.Today Japanese popular cultures global influence is felt most keenly in movie culture animation television the Internet social media music fashion and comics (manga) to name but a few fields and technologies. Indeed visual culture specifically television and movies with a strong emphasis on animation (anime) and manga led the first wave of Japanese popculture exports in the second half of the twentieth century. Since then academic interest in these exports both at home in Japan and overseas has developed rapidly. The second wave of Japanese popular culture followed the digitization of much of the global media: rapid communications global connectedness and the development of new media have provided platforms on which Japanese pop culture has been presented and critiqued engaged and transformed. More complex more hybrid and more sophisticated the relationships between Japan and the rest of the world are often given voice through new readings and interpretations of the interconnected popular cultural world.The assembled articles in Volume I of this new Routledge collection of major works provide a comprehensive overview of the postwar history of Japanese popular culture. Topics include the emergence of popular culture as an academic field in Japan: the genesis of manga and anime: analyses of various cultural artefacts and phenomena such as censorship and popular culture during the postwar occupation: the 1970s origin of kawaii culture: and street fashion in the 1980s.Volumes II and III meanwhile focus on the twentyfirst century. Over the last decade especially the transnational presence of Japanese popular culture has accelerated and with it scholarship on Japanese popular culture has grown in depth and diversity. The themes explored in these volumes include the role of digital technology in popular culture: esoteric cultural artefacts and activities such as loli fashion maid cafęs otaku culture and traditional music reinvented as pop as well as more conventionally popular products such as anime TV drama and shojo manga. Collectively the volume demonstrates the complex and heterogeneous nature of the Japanese popculture landscape in the twentyfirst century.The final volume in the collection addresses broader issues associated with Japanese popular culture and globalization. As Japan sought to boost its international śsoft power via a śCool Japan strategy the academy began to pay serious attention to the politicale

Data Publikacji: 2014-06-25
Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 3084 gr

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