Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination / Anne Allison ; foreword by Gary Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Anne, 1950-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 13.

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toys--Japan.

Toys.

Marketing.

Toy industry.

Consumer goods.

Video games.

Japan.

Games--Japan.

Games.

Animated films--Japan.

Animated films.

Video games--Japan.

Consumer goods--Japan.

Toy industry--Japan.

Toys--Japan--Marketing.

Philosophy, Japanese.

Japan--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Video games.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Summary:

Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese consumer culture--including manga (comic books), anime (animation), video games, and toys--and questions the make-up of fantasies nand capitalism that have spurred the industry's growth.

Contents:

Enchanted commodities

From ashes to cyborgs : the era of reconstruction (1945-1960)

Millennial Japan : intimate alienation and new age intimacies

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : the first crossover superheroes

Fierce flesh : sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon

Tamagotchi : the prosthetics of presence

Pokémon : getting monsters and communicating capitalism

"Gotta catch 'em all" : the Pokémonization of America (and the world).

Notes:

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index.

ISBN:

0520221486

0520245652

OCLC:

61479551

Publisher Number:

9780520245655

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