Passionate Friendship : : The Aesthetics of Girl's Culture in Japan / / Deborah M. Shamoon.
Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 25 b&w images, 5 color images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Language
- Introduction
- 1. The Emergence of the Shōjo and the Discourse of Spiritual Love in Meiji Literature
- 2. Prewar Girls' Culture (Shōjo Bunka), 1910-1937
- 3. Narrative and Visual Aesthetics of Prewar Girls' Magazines
- 4. The Formation of Postwar Shōjo Manga, 1950-1969
- 5. The Revolution in 1970s Shōjo Manga
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author