Fluid orality in the discourse of Japanese popular culture / by Maynard, Senko K.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. …”
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Manga and the representation of Japanese history

Table of Contents: “…The adaptation of Chinese history into Japanese popular culture : a study of Japanese manga, animated series and video games based on The romance of the three kingdoms /…”
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Primitive selves : Koreana in the Japanese colonial gaze, 1910-1945 by Atkins, E. Taylor (Everett Taylor), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A long engagement -- Ethnography as self-reflection : Japanese anthropology in colonial Korea -- Curating Koreana : the management of culture in colonial Korea -- The first K-wave : Koreaphilia in imperial Japanese popular culture -- Epilogue: Postcolonial valorizations.…”
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Primitive selves : Koreana in the Japanese colonial gaze, 1910-1945 by Atkins, E. Taylor (Everett Taylor), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A long engagement -- Ethnography as self-reflection : Japanese anthropology in colonial Korea -- Curating Koreana : the management of culture in colonial Korea -- The first K-wave : Koreaphilia in imperial Japanese popular culture -- Epilogue: Postcolonial valorizations.…”
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Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city

Table of Contents: “…A regional geography of film noir : urban cystopias on- and off-screen / Mark Shiel -- Oh no, there goes Tokyo : recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Postsocialist urban dystopia? …”
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Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city

Table of Contents: “…A regional geography of film noir : urban cystopias on- and off-screen / Mark Shiel -- Oh no, there goes Tokyo : recreational apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Postsocialist urban dystopia? …”
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Englishization in Asia : language and cultural issues

Table of Contents: “…English in the Hong Kong cultural scene""; ""9 Englishization in Japanese popular culture: Representation of ethnicity""; ""10 Englishization with an attitude: Cantonese-English lyrics in Hong Kong""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""…”
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Robot ghosts and wired dreams : Japanese science fiction from origins to anime

Table of Contents: “…Napier -- The mecha's blind spot : Patlabor 2 and the phenomenology of anime / Christopher Bolton -- Words of alienation, words of flight : loanwords in science fiction anime / Naoki Chiba and Hiroko Chiba -- Sex and the single cyborg : Japanese popular culture experiments in subjectivity / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Invasion of the woman snatchers : the problem of a-life and the uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Livia Monnet -- Otaku sexuality / Saitō Tamaki.…”
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Dialectics of the goddess in Japanese audiovisual culture

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Male homosexuality in modern Japan : cultural myths and social realities by McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020

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Faces of Aging : the Lived Experiences of the Elderly in Japan. by Matsumoto, Yoshiko

Table of Contents: “…Aging, Gender, and Sexuality in Japanese Popular Cultural Discourse: Pornographer Sachi Hamano and Her Rebellious Film Lily Festival (Yurisai).…”
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The Japanese numbers game : the use and understanding of numbers in modern Japan by Crump, Thomas

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The dynamics of cultural counterpoint in Asian studies

Table of Contents: “…Grissom -- Images of what never was to suggest what might be : Japanese popular culture and Japaneseness / Paul E. Dunscomb -- Korean p'ansori and the blues : art for communal healing / Katharine C. …”
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In Godzilla's footsteps : Japanese pop culture icons on the global stage

Table of Contents: “…Tsutsui * When Godzilla Speaks--Susan Napier * Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity--Mark Anderson * Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event--Barak Kushner * Lost in Translation and Morphed in Transit: Godzilla in Cold War America--Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu * Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body--Aaron Gerow * Mothra's Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan--Yoshikuni * Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture--Joyce Boss * Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon--Joanne Bernardi * "Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste": Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira -- in Japan and Canada--Kevin J. …”
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Otaku : Japan's database animals by Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-

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World weavers : globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution

Table of Contents: “…Hendrix -- 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen -- Is utopia obsolete? …”
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A history of the Takarazuka Revue since 1914 : modernity, girls' culture, Japan pop by Yamanashi, Makiko

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The supernatural revamped : from timeworn legends to twenty-first-century chic

Table of Contents: “…Taylor Kollman -- Philosophers and demons: Socrates, Descartes, and the search for certainty / Darren Hibbs -- The haunting of a nation: ghostly public discourses and Jamaican national trauma / Andrea Shaw Nevins -- An American werewolf in Trellebourg: representation of the werewolf in Swedish folk belief and popular culture / Tommy Kuusela -- Magic Mexican modernity: the shifting image of witches and witchcraft in the movies / Claudia Schaefer and Raul Rodríguez-Hernández -- Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, supernatural heredity, and "creature" genetics / Ashley Szanter -- An anime Dullahan: the Irish death messenger adapted in Japanese popular culture / Masaya Shimokusu -- Re-dressing revenants: anxieties of the body, the self, and desire when the undead make a stylish return / Sarah Heaton -- From vampires to zombies: the revisionist recreation of I Am Legend / Jessica E. …”
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Origins

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Seeing fans : representations of fandom in media and popular culture

Table of Contents: “…23 The Good Fandom: Depicting Japanese Female Fans in Moonlight Express, Moumantai, and Hong Kong Star Fans; 24 Otaku: Representations of Fandom in Japanese Popular Culture; 25 Interview with Jeanie Finlay, Director of Sound It Out (2011); Afterword: Participating in Hybrid Media Logics?…”
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Ecocriticism in Japan

Table of Contents: “…<Span><span>Foreword </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Ursula Heise</span></span><br /><span><span>Acknowledgements </span></span><br /><span><span>Introduction </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Yuki Masami</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Marjorie Rhine</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 2: Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Ronald Loftus by</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 3: Kyoko Matsunaga Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts: Ōta Yōko, Sata Ineko, and </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Hayashi Kyōko</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 4: Abe Kõbõ in Ecosophy </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Toshiya Ueno</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 5: Literary groun</span><span>d opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Ōe Kenzaburō's In Late Style </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Haga Koichi</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 6: Ōe and the Uses of Ecocritical Affect: Suspicion, Shame and Care after 3.11 </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Margherita Long</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 7: Nature Strikes Back: Human Interaction with Natural Forces in Literary Representations of Disaster </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Alex Bates</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 8: Horses and Ferns: Kaneko Mitsuharu and Furukawa Hideo </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Doug Slaymaker</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 9: Invisible Waves: On Some Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011 </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Keijiro Suga</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 10: From "Suffering" to "Compassion": The World of Ishimure Michiko's Works </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Shuji Takazawa</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 11: Representation of Nomads in the Works of Ishimure Michiko </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Daisuke Higuchi</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 12: On the Ideological Manipulation of Nature in Japanese Popular Culture: Miyazaki, Hyakuta, Ishimure </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Hisaaki Wake</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 13: A Chaosmos of Condivision: Radiation Aesthetics in the TV Anime Series Coppelion (2013) </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Livia Monnet</span></span><br /><span><span>Chapter 14: Arboreal Unicorns and Other Megaflora: On Kurosawa Kiyoshi's film Charisma </span><span style="font-style:italic;">by Christine Marran</span></span><br /><span><span>About the Contributors </span></span><br /><span><span>Index</span></span>…”
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