دانلود کتاب Introducing Japanese Popular Culture

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Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Japanese Conventions
1 Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: Serious Approaches to Playful Trends • Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade
Part I: Characters
2 Kumamon: Japan’s Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot • Debra J. Occhi
3 Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!?: Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad • Christine R. Yano
Part II: Television
4 The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs • Hirofumi Katsuno
5 Tokyo Love Story: Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas • Alisa Freedman
6 The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television • Kendall Heitzman
Part III: Videogames
7 Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII: Embodied Experience and Social Critique • Rachael Hutchinson
8 Policing Youth: Boy Detectives in Japanese Mystery Games • Tsugumi (Mimi) Okabe
9 The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Post-Apocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle • Kathryn Hemmann
Part IV: Fan Media and Technology
10 Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom • Mark McLelland
11 Thumb-Generation Literature: The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels • Alisa Freedman
12 Purikura: Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography • Laura Miller
13 “Cosplay Everywhere”: Costume Diplomacy at the World Cosplay Summit • Emerald L. King
14 Hatsune Miku: Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity • Ian Condry
Part V: Music
15 Electrifying the Japanese Teenager across Generations: The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan’s Popular Culture • Michael Furmanovsky
16 The “Pop Pacific”: Japanese American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music • Jayson Makoto Chun
17 AKB Business: Idols and Affective Economics in Contemporary Japan • Patrick W. Galbraith
18 In Search of Japanoise: Globalizing Underground Music • David Novak
19 Korean Pop Music in Japan: Understanding the Complex Relationship between Japan and Korea in the Popular Culture Realm • Eun-Young Jung
Part VI: Popular Cinema
20 The Prehistory of Soft Power: Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan • William M. Tsutsui
21 The Rise of Japanese Horror Films: Yotsuya Ghost Story (Yotsuya Kaidan), Demonic Men, and Victimized Women • Kyoko Hirano
22 V-Cinema: How Home Video Revitalized Japanese Film and Mystified Film Historians • Tom Mes
Part VII: Anime
23 Apocalyptic Animation: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and Baudrillard • Alan Cholodenko
24 Toy Stories: Robots and Magical Girls in Anime Marketing • Renato Rivera Rusca
25 The World According to Ghibli, or How a Small Japanese Studio Became a Global Phenomenon • Susan Napier
26 Condensing the Media Mix: The Tatami Galaxy’s Multiple Possible Worlds • Marc Steinberg
Part VIII: Manga
27 A Jew and a Nazi Walk into an Izakaya: Tezuka Osamu’s Holocaust Manga • Ben Whaley
28 Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture • Shige (CJ) Suzuki
29 The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber: Gender-Bending, Boys’ Love, and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ōoku by Yoshinaga Fumi • Deborah Shamoon
30 Cyborg Empiricism: The Ghost Is Not in the Shell • Thomas Lamarre
Part IX: Spectacles and Competitions
31 Hanabi: The Cultural Significance of Fireworks in Japan • Damien Liu-Brennan
32 Kamishibai: The Fantasy Space of the Urban Street Corner • Sharalyn Orbaugh
33 Making a Game of Their Own: Baseball in Japan • Paul Dunscomb
34 Pop Go the Games: Japanese Popular Culture and Politics at the Olympics • David Leheny
Part X: Sites
35 Shibuya: Reflective Identity in Transforming Urban Space • Izumi Kuroishi
36 Akihabara: Promoting and Policing Otaku in “Cool Japan” • Patrick W. Galbraith
37 Japan Lost and Found: Modern Ruins as Debris of the Economic Miracle • Tong Lam
Part XI: Fashion
38 Cute Fashion: The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii • Toby Slade
39 Made in Japan: A New Generation of Fashion Designers • Narumi Hiroshi
Part XII: Contemporary Art
40 Superflat Life • Tom Looser
41 Aida Makoto: Notes from an Apathetic Continent • Adrian Favell
42 The Art of Upcycling in the Seto Inland Sea • James Jack
Glossary
Bibliography
Index