Handbook of Japanese media and popular culture in transition / edited by Forum Mithani and Griseldis Kirsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mithani, Forum, editor.

Kirsch, Griseldis, editor.

Series:

Handbooks on Japanese Studies

Japan documents handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Japan.

Mass media.

Popular culture--Japan.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This handbook brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well known or studied.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Reimagining History

Chapter 1 Imagining Alternative Pasts: Imperial Nostalgia on Japanese Television

Chapter 2 Truth and Limitations: Japanese Media and Disasters

Chapter 3 Solace or Criticism? The Representation of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Television Dramas and Films

Part 2 Transitions and Transcultural Flows

Chapter 4 Red-Light Bases (1953): A Cross-Temporal Contact Zone

Chapter 5 Creating the Youth Star System in Japan: Transnational and Transmedia Phenomena

Chapter 6 Film and Television: Looking Beyond a Historic Rivalry

Chapter 7 Remaking Revenge: Transnational Television Drama Flows and the Remaking of the Korean Drama Mawang in Japan

Part 3 Franchises and Formats

Chapter 8 Media Mix: Theorizing and Historicizing Japanese Franchising

Chapter 9 Nihilistamina: Gloomy Heroisms in Contemporary Anime

Chapter 10 A Television Flagship Sailing the Currents of a Changing Media World: NHK’s Morning Drama (asadora) in the 21st Century

Part 4 Gender and Media

Chapter 11 Japanese Popular Fiction: Constraint, Violence and Freedom in Kirino Natsuo’s Out

Chapter 12 Intersections of Difference: Sex, Gender and Disability in Japanese Visual Media

Chapter 13 Marketing Men (,) Silencing Men: The Sapporo Beer-Mifune Campaign and Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Advertising

Chapter 14 Japanese Men’s Magazines: (Re)producing Hybrid Masculinities

Part 5 Audiences and Users

Chapter 15 Japanese Audiences, and Japanese Audience Studies

Chapter 16 The Serious Business of Song: Karaoke as Discipline and Industry in Japan

Chapter 17 Studying Digital Media in the Diasporic Transnationalism Context: The Case of International Migrants in Japan

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Tokyo: Japan Documents, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

1-003-69711-9

1-04-078681-2

90-485-5926-X

9781003697114

OCLC:

1353262081