The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures"Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology."--Publisher. |
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Table des matières
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Nonchans Dream NHK morning serialized television novels | 133 |
Shifting Boundaries | 153 |
Media Stories of Bliss and Mixed Blessings | 155 |
The Cult of Oguricap Or how women changed the social value of Japanese horseracing | 167 |
Soccer shinhatsubai What are Japanese consumers making of the J League? | 181 |
Index | 202 |
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Page 69 - Happening) is concerned with the aesthetics of destruction, with the peculiar beauties to be found in wreaking havoc, making a mess. And it is in the imagery of destruction that the core of a good science fiction film lies.
Page 66 - The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. ... At the limit of this process of reproducibility, the real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyperreal
Page 64 - In the flow state, action follows upon action according to an internal logic that seems to need no conscious intervention by the actor.
Page 59 - ... for example, may find it easier than his less gifted peers to meet the demands of the college-boy standards without failing his obligations to his corner-boy associates. It is a plausible assumption, then, that the working-class boy whose status is low in middle-class terms cares about that status, that this status confronts him with a genuine problem of adjustment. To this problem of adjustment there are a variety of conceivable responses, of which participation in the creation and the maintenance...
Page 61 - contrary to holiness' and Levi-Strauss has noted how, in certain primitive myths, the mispronunciation of words and the misuse of language are classified along with incest as horrendous aberrations capable of 'unleashing storm and tempest...
Page 64 - He experiences it as a unified flowing from one moment to the next, in which he is in control of actions, and in which there is little distinction between self and environment, between stimulus and response, or between past, present, and future.
Page 64 - According to him, flow refers to "the holistic sensation that people feel when they act with total involvement...
Page 59 - The hallmark of the delinquent subculture is the explicit and wholesale repudiation of middle-class standards and the adoption of their very antithesis.
Page 68 - Things, objects, machinery play a major role in these films. A greater range of ethical values is embodied in the decor of these films than in the people. Things, rather than the helpless humans, are the locus of values because we experience them, rather than people, as the sources of power. According to science fiction films, man is naked without his artifacts. They stand for different values, they are potent, they are what...
Page 82 - Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.
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| Titre | The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures Contemporary Japanese Society |
| Rédacteurs | Dolores Martinez, Harumi Befu |
| Collaborateur | Harumi Befu |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0521637295, 9780521637299 |
| Longueur | 212 pages |
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