Contemporary Japan and popular culture /
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| Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | viii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2756750 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Japanese Studies into Cultural Studies / John Whittier Treat
- 1. Race and Relexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture / John G. Russell
- 2. In Pursuit of Perfection: The Discourse of Cars and Transposition of Signs in Two Advertising Campaigns / Brian Moeran
- 3. 'Finally, I Reach to Africa': Ryuichi Sakamoto and Sounding Japan(ese) / Brian Currid
- 4. Mournful Tears and Sake: The Postwar Myth of Misora Hibari / Alan M. Tansman
- 5. Fashion Trends, Japonisme and Postmodernism / Lise Skov
- 6. Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia / Leo Ching
- 7. Japanese Daytime Television, Popular Culture and Ideology / Andrew A. Painter
- 8. Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira / Susan J. Napier
- 9. Murakami Haruki and Japan Today / Aoki Tamotsu
- 10. Yoshimoto Banana Writes Home: The Shojo in Japanese Popular Culture / John Whittier Treat.