Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Some articles I found

The invention and reinvention of japanese culture
by morris-suzuki

Serious television drama. the japaense audiences: its composition and characteristics
by jose M. de vera

and as it turns out, I already printed andrew painter's article about japanese tv.

I was having trouble finding articles before.

Articles in one of my pop culture books

My book "contemporary Japan and popular culture" is a compilation of articles that may be useful to everyone else. So even though I know no one else is reading my bog, I'll post it here anyway.


1. race and relexivity: the black other in contemporary japanese mass culture

2. In pursuit of perfection: the discourse of cars and transposition of signs on two advertising campaigns

3. finally, i reach to africa: yuichi sakamoto and sounding japan(ese)

4. mournful tears and sake: the postwar myth of misora hibari

5. fashion Trends, Japonisme and postmodernism by lise Skov

6. imaginings in the empires of the sun: japanese mass culture in Asia by leo ching

7. Japanese daytime television: popular culture and ideology by painter

8. Panic sites: the Japanese imagination of disaster from Godzilla to akira by napier

9. murakami haruki and Japan today

10. Yoshimoto banana writes home: the shoujo in Japanese popular culture.


yappari, this isn't helpful at all, but there's lot of interesting stuff out there.

List of my books that I have so far

Gender, Language and Culture: A study of Japanese television interview discourse
by Lidia Tanaka

Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas
edited by koichi iwabuchi

The Japanese Television Cartel
by David Schwartzman

A nation of 100 million Idiots? A social hostory of japanese television 1953-1973
by Jayson Makoto Chun

The Couch potato's guide to Japan: inside the world of japanese tv
by WM. Penn

TV in the Age of Globalization
Japan media communication center

Japan Pop! Inside the world of Japanese pop culture
by Timothy J. Craig

Contemporary Japan and popular culture
edited by Whittier Treat