Mangaddicts.

• Superior document: Youth in a Globalizing World Series ; v.21
• Author: Détrez, Christine.
• TeilnehmendeR: Vanhée, Olivier.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Youth in a Globalizing World Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 pages)

"Just pronounce the word "manga" and conflicted representations of media reception emerge: either passive teenagers immersed in Japanese fictional worlds, or hyperactive fans. To understand what drives a variety of teenagers to read manga, we conducted empirical research among French...

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Tables and Graphs
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 What Is Manga?
• 1 "One Thousand Years of Manga" or "Sixty Years of Manga"? Definitions and Search for Origins
• 2 Production Process and Manga Specificities
• 2.1 The Effect of the Production Process
• 2.2 The Categorization of Readers
• 2.2.1 Targeting Readers
• 2.2.2 Age and Gender Group: Segmentation and Hybridization
• 2.3 The Rise of the Manga Cultural Industry in Japan
• 2.4 Manga Spread and Reception in France: From Media Panic to Recognition
• 3 Mapping the French Manga Market
• 3.1 Field Structuring
• 3.1.1 Today's Publishers
• 3.2 Outcome
• Chapter 2 A Reading Practice Embedded in the Youth Culture
• 1 A Reading Embedded in Teenagers' Schedules
• 1.1 Reading Easy and Practical
• 1.2 Reading in Various Contexts
• 1.3 Reading and Rereading
• 2 A Reading Practice Embedded in the "Youth Culture" Constellation
• 2.1 Cartoons
• 2.2 The Digital Era
• 2.3 Music
• 2.4 The Fantastic and the Sentimental
• 2.5 Reading and the Book
• 3 Friendship Networks
• 3.1 Exchange Networks
• 3.2 Discussing Manga
• 3.3 A Way of Connecting with Others
• 4 Manga-Related Hobbies
• 4.2 Girls: Cosplay and Fanfiction
• 4.2.1 Cosplays
• 4.2.2 Fanfictions
• 4.3 Anime Music Videos and Role Playing Games (amv and rpg)
• 4.4 Blogs
• 5 Readers' Careers
• 5.1 Discovering Manga
• 5.2 High School as a Confirmation
• 5.3 Turning Points and Career Endings
• Chapter 3 Reading Manga
• 1 Entertainment
• 1.1 Enjoyment
• 1.2 Escapism
• 1.3 Laughing: A Serious Matter
• 1.3.1 Burlesque and Situational Comedy: A Comic Pattern of "Degradation"
• 1.3.2 Nonsense and Absurd
• 1.3.3 Comedies in a School Setting: Satire and the Subversion of Authority.
• 1.3.4 Humor in Coming-of-Age Comedies: Comical Variations on Romantic and Sexual Relationships
• 1.3.5 Plays on Words
• 1.4 … and Crying
• 2 Relatability
• 2.1 The Various Facets of Identification: Admiring
• 2.2 Recognizing Oneself
• 2.3 Ethical Receptions
• 2.4 Seeking Comfort
• 3 Right Age, Right Gender, Right Manners
• 3.1 The Role of Age and Generations
• 3.2 Age Matters
• 4 Getting One's Gender Straight: Boys, Fist Fights and Little Nana Girls
• 4.1 Boys and "Beating"
• 4.2 Diverse Models of Masculinity: Intelligence, Psychology, and Emotions
• 4.3 The Little Nana Girls
• 5 Growing Up with Manga: Practical Uses
• 5.1 Seeds of Knowledge
• 5.2 Seeds of Life
• Chapter 4 In Search of Lost Legitimacy
• 1 Conflicted Dispositions
• 1.1 Parents, Teachers and Friends
• 1.2 Internalization
• 2 Fans in Their Own Words: Self-Portraits
• 2.1 Not Being a Fan
• 2.2 Being a Fan
• 3 "Scholarly" Readings
• 3.1 Reading as a Meticulous Task
• 3.2 Reading Skills
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1 Glossary: The Manga and Japanese Animation Universe
• Appendix 2 The Manga Readers Interviewed and Their Characteristics
• Appendix 3 Summaries of Some Manga Titles by Those Who Read Them
• Appendix 4 Graphs and Tables About Manga Publishing in France
• Bibliography
• Index of Authors
• Index of Subjects.