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The worlds of Japanese popular culture : gender, shifting boundaries and global cultures / edited by D.P. Martinez.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Japanese societyPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: xi, 212 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521637295
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0952 MAR
Online resources:
Contents:
Sumo in the popular culture of contemporary Japan / Yamaguchi Masao -- Transformational magic / Tom Gill -- Akira, postmodernism and resistance / Isolde Standish -- Japan\'s empty orchestras / Bill Kelly -- Vampires, psychic girls, flying women and sailor scouts / Susan Napier -- Japanese women\'s magazines / Keiko Tanaka -- Nonchan\'s dream / Paul A.S. Harvey -- Media stories of bliss and mixed blessings / Halldór Stefánsson -- Cult of Oguricap / Nagashima Nobuhiro -- Soccer shinhatsubai / Jonathan Watts.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 306.0952 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000361254

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sumo in the popular culture of contemporary Japan / Yamaguchi Masao -- Transformational magic / Tom Gill -- Akira, postmodernism and resistance / Isolde Standish -- Japan\'s empty orchestras / Bill Kelly -- Vampires, psychic girls, flying women and sailor scouts / Susan Napier -- Japanese women\'s magazines / Keiko Tanaka -- Nonchan\'s dream / Paul A.S. Harvey -- Media stories of bliss and mixed blessings / Halldór Stefánsson -- Cult of Oguricap / Nagashima Nobuhiro -- Soccer shinhatsubai / Jonathan Watts.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • I Introduction
  • Gender, shifting boundaries and global cultures
  • 1 Sumo in the popular culture of contemporary Japan
  • II The Male Domain
  • 2 Transformational magic: Some Japanese super-heroes and monsters
  • 3 Akira, postmodernism and resistance
  • 4 Japan's empty orchestras: Echoes of Japanese culture in the performance of karaoke
  • III The Female Domain
  • 5 Vampries, psychic girls, flying women and sailor scouts: Four faces of the young female in Japanese popular culture
  • 6 Japanese women's magazines: The language of aspiration
  • 7 Nonchan's dream: NHK morning serialised television novels in the 1980s
  • IV Shifting Boundaries
  • 8 Media stories of bliss and mixed blessings in marriages
  • 9 The cult of Oguricap: Or, how women changed the social value of Japanese horse-racing
  • 10 Soccer shinhatsubai: what are Japanese consumers making of the J League?

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