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Emily Cook
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Subjects: Africana Studies,
Arabic,
Art,
Art History,
Classics,
East Asian Languages and Literatures,
East Asian Studies,
English,
French,
German,
History,
Italian,
Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Literature in Translation,
Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Middle East & South Asian Studies,
Music,
Philosophy,
Portuguese,
Religion,
Russian,
Russian Area Studies,
Spanish,
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Select Readings on Modern Japanese Culture
Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society by Sharon Kinsella
First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors.
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780700710034
Publication Date: 2000
Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism by Peter J. Katzenstein (Editor); Takashi Shiraishi (Editor)
This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region...
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781501731112
Publication Date: 2018
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture by Yoshio Sugimoto (Editor)
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts...
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781139002455
Publication Date: 2010
Girl Reading Girl in Japan by Tomoko Aoyama (Editor); Barbara Hartley (Editor)
Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social backgrounds throughout the twentieth century while a number of chapters also consider how fictional girls read attention is given to the diverse cultural representations of the girl, or shôjo, who are the objects of the reading desires of Japan's real life and fictional girls...
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781135247966
Publication Date: 2012
Japanese Visual Culture by Mark W. MacWilliams
... The contributors explore the historical, cultural, sociological, and religious dimensions of manga and anime, and examine specific sub-genres, artists, and stylistics. The book also addresses such topics as spirituality, the use of visual culture by Japanese new religious movements, Japanese Goth, nostalgia and Japanese pop, "cute" (kawali) subculture and comics for girls, and more. With illustrations throughout, it is a rich source for all scholars and fans of manga and anime as well as students of contemporary mass culture or Japanese culture and civilization.
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781317467007
Publication Date: 2014
Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781441107879Publication Date: 2010
Rice as Self : Japanese Identities through Time by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9786612751745Publication Date: 1994
