Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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.

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