Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

Name: Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
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ISBN: 9780415447959

ISBN-10: 041544795X

ISBN-13: 9780415447959

Edition: 2006

Authors: Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto

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Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of Japanese popular culture into and out of Japan. The book argues that a key factor behind the changing nature of Japanese popular culture lies in its engagement with globalization. Essays from a team of leading international scholars illustrate this crucial interaction. Drawing on rich empirical content from a series of interdisciplinary perspectives, this book looks at the complex movement of Japanese popular culture as it traverses international borders.…

Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.29" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Japanese names and words


Notes on contributors



Introduction: inside-out Japan? Popular culture and globalization in the context of Japan




Reconfiguring Japan



Japanese popular culture and postcolonial desire for 'Asia'




South Park does Japan: going global with Chimpokomon




The film Bishonen and Queer(N)Asia through Japanese popular culture




Japan beating: the making and marketing of professional taiko music in Australia




Who reads comics? Manga readership among first-generation Asian immigrants in New Zealand




Becoming global



'Sportsports': cultural exports and imports in Japan's contemporary globalization career




Writing as out/insiders: contemporary Japan's ekkyo literature in globalization




Japan's original 'gay boom'




Subcultural unconsciousness in Japan: the war and Japanese contemporary artists




The 'most crucial education': Saotome Katsumoto, globalization and Japanese anti-war thought




Loochoo Beat(s): music in and out of 'Okinawa'



Index