Matthew Allen / Rumi Sakamoto (eds.)

Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

Herausgeber: Allen, Matthew; Sakamoto, Rumi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the 'Japanessness' of Japanese popular culture by focusing on the intersection of globalization and popular cultural products associated with Japan. This book is useful for for those working in Japanese studies, cultural studies, and international relations.

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This exciting and fascinating text explores the 'Japanessness' of Japanese popular culture by focusing on the intersection of globalization and popular cultural products associated with Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415368988
• ISBN-10: 0415368987
• Artikelnr.: 22529799

Autorenporträt

Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto

Inhaltsangabe

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'