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Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework (technologies, institutions, economics, cultural trends). Tracing ""the great value shift from conduit to content"" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place. But, characteristically taking up questions of worth where others have avoided them, Nelson recognizes that certain ty
TV drama. --- aesthetics of texts. --- cultural trends. --- economics. --- global market-place. --- institutions. --- quality. --- television. --- value shift. --- viewer preference.
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This study introduces the concepts of naturalization and naturalized modernity, and uses them as tools for understanding the way modernity has been experienced and portrayed in Japanese literature since the end of the Second World War. Special emphasis is given to four leading post-war writers – Kawabata Yasunari, Abe Kobo, Murakami Haruki and Murakami Ryu. The author argues that notions of ‘shock’ in modern city life in Japan (as exemplified in the writings of Walter Benjamin and George Simmel), while present in the work of older Japanese writers, do not appear to hold true in much contemporary Japanese literature: it is as if the ‘shock’ impact of change has evolved as a ‘naturalized’ or ‘Japanized’ process. The author focuses on the implications of this phenomenon, both in the context of the theory of modernity and as an opportunity to reevaluate the works of his chosen writers.
Japanese literature --- History and criticism. --- J4144 --- J5509 --- J5930 --- J5931 --- History and criticism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- modernism --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism
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Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically and stylistically defined, subcultures such as Lolita in Harajuku, Gyaru and Gyaru-o in Shibuya, Age-jo in Shinjuku, and Mori Girl in Kouenji, reflect the affiliation and identities of their members, and have often blurred the boundary between professionals and amateurs for models, photographers, merchan
Fashion --- Style in dress --- Clothing and dress --- Fashion design --- Subculture --- Design --- Fashion. --- Textile & Costume. --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- Clothing design --- Dress design --- Subcultures --- Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Social groups --- Counterculture --- J4151 --- J4142 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- clothing, dress, costume and make-up --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements in general
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This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. It is the first to draw together research on the interwar musical culture of the Osaka region and addresses comprehensively both Western and non-Western musical practices and genres, questions the common perception of their being wholly separate domains in interwar Japan, and gives due weight to their overlap in the creation of new hybrid genres. This empirically grounded investigation explores Osaka's modern musical culture to better understand the effects of regional geography, demography
Music --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- J6700 --- J6800.80 --- J4144 --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- music --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- modernism
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Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan's transformation into a postwar middle-class society.
Popular music --- Music, Popular --- Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) --- Pop music --- Popular songs --- Popular vocal music --- Songs, Popular --- Vocal music, Popular --- Music --- Cover versions --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism --- J6754 --- J4143 --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- music -- popular music --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture
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Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work. Presenting outstanding analysis of Japanese intellectuals and writers who have received little attention in the West, the book also includes an extensive and comprehensive bibliography making it
Japanese literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Feminism and literature --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Literature --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Japan --- Civilization --- J4150.90 --- J4145 --- J4176 --- J5509 --- J5930 --- History and criticism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- postmodernism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Literature and feminism
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Almost right from the introduction of baseball to Japan the sport was regarded as qualitatively different from the original American model. This vision of Japanese baseball associates the sport with steadfast devotion (magokoro) and the values of the samurai class in the code of Bushidō, in which greatness is achieved through hard work under the tutelage of a selfless master.In Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball Keaveney analyzes the persistent appeal of such mythologizing, arguing that the sport has been serving as a repository for traditional values, to which the Japanese have returned time and again in epochs of uncertainty and change. Baseball and modern culture emerged and developed side by side in Japan, giving cultural representations of this national pastime special insights into Japanese values and their contortions from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Keaveney explains the origins of the cultural construct "Samurai baseball" and reflects on the recurrences of these essentialist discourses at critical junctures in Japan's modern history. Since the early modern period, writers, filmmakers, and manga artists have alternately affirmed and debunked these popular myths of baseball. This study presents an overview of these cultural products, beginning with Masaoka Shiki's pioneering baseball writings, then moves on to the long history of baseball films and the venerable tradition of baseball fiction, and finally considers the substantial body of baseball manga and anime. Perhaps what is most striking is the continuous relevance of baseball and its values as a point of cultural reference for the Japanese people; their engagement with baseball is a genuine national love affair.
Popular culture --- Bushido --- Baseball in literature --- Baseball films --- Baseball --- Base-ball --- Ball games --- Sports films --- Chivalry --- Ethics --- National characteristics, Japanese --- Samurai --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History. --- History and criticism --- History --- E-books --- J6955 --- J4143 --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- baseball, softball --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture
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Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties-and the attempts to contain them-as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.
Ethnology --- National characteristics, Japanese. --- Nationalism --- Ethnocentrism --- Culture --- Semiotics --- Cultural relativism --- Ethnopsychology --- Prejudices --- Race --- Japanese national characteristics --- Semiotic models. --- Methodology --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- National characteristics, Japanese --- J4120 --- J4144 --- J4150 --- Semiotic models --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phemomena --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- modernism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phenomena --- japanese, ghosts, haunting, haunted, modern, anxiety, loss, identity, national, culture, cultural, academic, scholarly, research, postwar, wwii, world war, wartime, contemporary, 20th, 21st, century, ethnography, ethnographic, criticism, critique, margins, marginality, nation state, present day, folklore, nostalgia, storytelling, kabuki, social life, society, nativist, capitalist, politics, economy.
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This illustrated volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialities to explore the richness and subtleties of Japanese manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films)--and how they have become two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture.
Comic books, strips, etc. --- Animated films --- Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) --- Animated videos --- Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture cartoons --- Moving-picture cartoons --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Motion pictures --- Abstract films --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Animation cels --- History and criticism. --- Comic books, strips, etc --- 130.2 --- 791.46 --- animatie --- anime --- beeldverhaal --- cultuurfilosofie --- film --- Japan --- manga --- populaire cultuur --- tekenkunst --- J4143 --- J5960 --- J6848 --- History and criticism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose -- manga --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- anime --- Bandes dessinées --- Dessins animés --- Dessins animés --- Mangas --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique. --- Japan. --- Drawing --- Literature --- beeldverhalen
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