Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected World

Name: Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected World
Price: 6.73 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780300158649

ISBN-10: 0300158645

ISBN-13: 9780300158649

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji

List price: $38.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Rent eBooks

180 day rental: $35.00 Expiration date: 10/21/2024

Marketplace

2 new & used from $6.73

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as "geek"an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Editors' Note on Translation


Introduction




Culture and Discourse



Why Study Train Qtaku? A Social History of Imagination




Database Animals




Japan's Cynical Nationalism




Strategies of Engagement: Discovering, Defining, and Describing Otaku Culture in the United States




Infrastructure and Place



Comic Market as Space for Self-Expression in Otaku Culture




Otaku and the City: The Rebirth of Akihabara




Anime and Manga Fandom as Networked Culture




Contributors versus Leechers: Fansubbing Ethics and a Hybrid Public Culture




Community and Identity



Making Fujoshi Identity Visible and Invisible




Cosplay, Learning, and Cultural Practice




The Fighting Gamer Otaku Community: What Are They "Fighting" About?




"As Long as It's Nat Linkin Park Z": Popularity, Distinction, and Status in the AMV Subculture



Contributors


Index