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ZIN Product Number: 10239621
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Textbook Paperback, 1st ed., 3
Publisher: Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
ISBN: 0765605619
Release Date: Jan 6, 2001
| |  | | | In Brief
This book looks at various forms of Japanese popular culture: pop song, jazz, enka (a popular ballad genre of music), karaoke, comics, animated cartoons, video games, television dramas, films, and "idols"—teenage singers and actors. As pop culture not only entertains but is also a product and reflection of society, the book is also about Japan—about Japan's similarities and differences with the rest of the world, and about how Japan is changing. Relations between the sexes, shifting gender roles; social and family life conditions; Japan's cultural identity; and views on love, work, duty, dreams, war and peace, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death—all of these are cast in a revealing light by Japanese pop culture as captured in this book.
The authors are all specialists in their subjects, and each chapter is academically sound, intriguing, and accessibly written. In addition to describing and analyzing the authors also give the reader a direct taste of Japan's pop culture via the presentation of story plots, character profiles, song lyrics, manga (comics) samples, photographs, and other visuals, and the thoughts and words of Japan pop's artists, creators, and fans. This book is visually enhanced by 32 pages of magna plus 50 additional photos, illustrations, and shorter comic samples.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | A Note on Language | | | 1 | Introduction | 3 | | Pt. I | Popular Music | | | 2 | Can Japanese Sing the Blues? "Japanese Jazz" and the Problem of Authenticity | 27 | | 3 | The Marketing of Tears: Consuming Emotions in Japanese Popular Song | 60 | | 4 | Open Your File, Open Your Mind: Women, English, and Changing Roles and Voices in Japanese Pop Music | 75 | | 5 | A Karaoke Perspective on International Relations | 101 | | Pt. II | Comics and Animation | | | 6 | Japanese Comic Books and Religion: Osamu Tezuka's Story of the Buddha | 109 | | 7 | The Romantic, Passionate Japanese in Anime: A Look at the Hidden Japanese Soul | 138 | | 8 | Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen): Volume 8, pages 17-31 | 154 | | 9 | Gender Roles and Girls' Comics in Japan: The Girls and Guys of Yukan Club | 171 | | 10 | From Sazae-san to Crayon Shin-chan: Family Anime, Social Change, and Nostalgia in Japan | 186 | | Pt. III | Television and Film | | | 11 | New Role Models for Men and Women? Gender in Japanese TV Dramas | 207 | | 12 | A New Kind of Royalty: The Imperial Family and the Media in Postwar Japan | 222 | | 13 | Into the Heartland with Tora-san | 245 | | Pt. IV | Japanese Popular Culture Abroad | | | 14 | Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls | 259 | | 15 | Beauty Fighter "Sailor Chemist" | 279 | | 16 | Doraemon Goes Abroad | 287 | | 17 | Pop Idols and the Asian Identity | 309 | | About the Contributors | 327 | | Credits for Photographs and Illustrations | 331 | | Credits for Song Lyrics | 335 | | Index | 339 |
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