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Japan on American TV explores political, economic, and cultural issues underlying depictions of Japan on U.S. television comedies and the programs they inspired. The book examines six main categories of television portrayals representing different genres and comedic forms.

Motion pictures, Japanese. --- Japanese language. --- Mass media and culture --- Intercultural communication --- Television broadcasting --- Social aspects

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Motion pictures, Japanese --- Motion pictures --- Cinéma japonais --- Cinéma --- History. --- Histoire --- J6800.80 --- J6839 --- Japanese motion pictures --- Foreign films --- History --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema

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Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the ""language-medium"" of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows

Animated films --- Motion pictures, Japanese --- Culture in motion pictures. --- History. --- Asia --- Civilization --- Japanese influences. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Popular culture --- Films d'animation --- Dessins animés --- Asie orientale --- Japon --- Civilisation --- Histoire --- Influence japonaise --- Dessins animés

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The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu. With his recent top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters, Kore-eda is arguably Japan’s greatest living director with an international viewership. He approaches difficult subjects (child abandonment, suicide, marginality) with a realistic and compassionate eye. The lyrical tone of the writing of Japanese film scholar Linda C. Ehrlich perfectly complements the understated, yet powerful, tone of the films. From An Elemental Cinema, readers will gain a special understanding of Kore-eda’s films through a novel connection to the natural elements as reflected in Japanese traditional aesthetics. An Elemental Cinema presents Kore-eda’s oeuvre as a connected whole with overarching thematic concerns, despite frequent generic experimentation. It also offers an example of how the poetics of cinema can be practiced in writing, as well as on the screen, and helps readers understand the films of this contemporary director as works of art that relate to their own lives.

Motion pictures --- Motion pictures, Japanese --- Koreeda, Hirokazu, --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Motion pictures—History. --- Popular Culture. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Asian Culture. --- Film History. --- Popular Culture . --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture

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"The Ring (2002), Hollywood's remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998), marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the various transformations that occur when texts cross cultural boundaries. Through close readings of a range of Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes, this study addresses the social, cultural, aesthetic and generic features of each national cinemas approach to and representation of horror, within the subgenre of the ghost story, tracing convergences and divergences in the films narrative trajectories, aesthetic style, thematic focus and ideological content. In comparing contemporary Japanese horror films with their American adaptations, this book advances existing studies of both the Japanese and American cinematic traditions, by:illustrating the ways in which each tradition responds to developments in its social, cultural and ideological milieu; and, examining Japanese horror films and their American remakes through a lens that highlights cross-cultural exchange and bilateral influence. The book will be of interest to scholars of film, media, and cultural studies"--

Horror films --- Film remakes --- Horror films --- Horror films --- Motion pictures, Japanese --- Films d'horreur --- Films d'horreur --- Remakes (cinéma) --- Cinéma --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire et critique. --- Influence japonaise.