Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition / / ed. by Griseldis Kirsch, Forum Mithani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Centeno-Martin, Marcos P.,; Coates, Jennifer,; De Souza, Lyle,; Denison, Rayna,; González-López, Irene,; Green, Laurence,; Gössmann, Hilaria,; Hood, Christopher P.,; Kirsch, Griseldis,; Kitaura, Hiroyuki,; Loriguillo-López, Antonio,; Lozano-Méndez, Artur,; MHM Limited, Tokyo,; Mithani, Forum,; Saladin, Ronald,; Scherer, Elisabeth,; Stolyar, Julia,; Wang, Xinyu Promio,; White, James X,
• HerausgeberIn: Kirsch, Griseldis,; Mithani, Forum,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks on Japanese Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well known or studied. Organized into five thematic sections, the chapters span a diverse range of cultural genres, including contemporary film and television, postwar cinema, advertising, popular fiction, men’s magazines, manga and anime, karaoke and digital media. They address issues critical to contemporary Japanese society: the politicization of history, authenticity and representation, constructions of identity, trauma and social disaffection, intersectionality and trans/nationalism. Drawing on methods and approaches from a range of disciplines, the chapters make explicit the interconnections between these areas of research and map out possible trajectories for future inquiry. As such, the handbook will be of value to both novice scholars and seasoned researchers, working within and/or beyond the Japanese media studies remit.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Reimagining History -- Chapter 1 Imagining Alternative Pasts: Imperial Nostalgia on Japanese Television -- Chapter 2 Truth and Limitations: Japanese Media and Disasters -- Chapter 3 Solace or Criticism? The Representation of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Television Dramas and Films -- Part 2 Transitions and Transcultural Flows -- Chapter 4 Red-Light Bases (1953): A Cross-Temporal Contact Zone -- Chapter 5 Creating the Youth Star System in Japan: Transnational and Transmedia Phenomena -- Chapter 6 Film and Television: Looking Beyond a Historic Rivalry -- Chapter 7 Remaking Revenge: Transnational Television Drama Flows and the Remaking of the Korean Drama Mawang in Japan -- Part 3 Franchises and Formats -- Chapter 8 Media Mix: Theorizing and Historicizing Japanese Franchising -- Chapter 9 Nihilistamina: Gloomy Heroisms in Contemporary Anime -- Chapter 10 A Television Flagship Sailing the Currents of a Changing Media World: NHK’s Morning Drama (asadora) in the 21st Century -- Part 4 Gender and Media -- Chapter 11 Japanese Popular Fiction: Constraint, Violence and Freedom in Kirino Natsuo’s Out -- Chapter 12 Intersections of Difference: Sex, Gender and Disability in Japanese Visual Media -- Chapter 13 Marketing Men (,) Silencing Men: The Sapporo Beer-Mifune Campaign and Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Advertising -- Chapter 14 Japanese Men’s Magazines: (Re)producing Hybrid Masculinities -- Part 5 Audiences and Users -- Chapter 15 Japanese Audiences, and Japanese Audience Studies -- Chapter 16 The Serious Business of Song: Karaoke as Discipline and Industry in Japan -- Chapter 17 Studying Digital Media in the Diasporic Transnationalism Context: The Case of International Migrants in Japan -- Index