日本の大衆文化入門（第２版） Introducing Japanese Popular Culture（2 NED）

著者名：Freedman, Alisa (EDT)

Routledge（2023/04/18発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032298092
• eISBN：9781000864175

Description

Specifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms.

It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production, as well as politics, society, and economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it.

With contributions from an international team of scholars, representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to art history and media studies, the book covers:

• Characters
• Television
• Videogames
• Fan media and technology
• Music
• Popular cinema
• Anime
• Manga
• Spectacles and competitions
• Sites of popular culture
• Fashion
• Contemporary art.

Written in an accessible style with ample description and analysis, this textbook is essential reading for students of Japanese culture and society, Asian media and popular culture, globalization, and Asian Studies in general. It is a go-to handbook for interested readers and a compendium for scholars.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: Serious Approaches to Playful Trends

Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: Videogames

7. Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII: Embodied Experience and Social Critique

Rachael Hutchinson

8. Policing Youth: Boy Detectives in Japanese Visual Novel Games

Tsugumi (Mimi) Okabe

9. The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Postapocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle

Kathryn Hemmann

Part 4: 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 5: 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 Economies 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 6: 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 7: 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 Animation Studio Became a Global Phenomenon

Susan Napier

26. Condensing the Media Mix: The Tatami Galaxy’s Multiple Possible Worlds

Marc Steinberg

Part 8: 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 for Yoshinaga Fumi

Deborah Shamoon

30. Cyborg Empiricism: The Ghost Is Not in the Shell

Thomas Lamarre

Part 9: 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 as Japan’s National Sport

Paul Dunscomb

34. Pop Go the Games: Japanese Popular Culture and Politics at the Olympics

David Leheny

Part 10: 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 11: Fashion

38. Cute Fashion: The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii

Toby Slade

39. Made in Japan: A New Generation Fashion Designers

Hiroshi Narumi

Part 12: Contemporary Art

40. Superflat Life

Tom Looser

41. Aida Makoto: Notes from an Apathetic Continent

Adrian Favell

42. The Art of Upcycling in the Set Inland Sea

James Jack