Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture (Paperback) by John Whittier Treat(Editor)

Hardcover: 234 pages
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (December 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824818547

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays by Asian, American and European scholars, which takes up both the newer and traditional debates in cultural theory while relating the study of the popular to the rhetoric that specifically surrounds the issue of a Japanese national identity in the age of globalization. The volume explores a wide range of cultural practices - including popular literature, film, television, fashion, music and advertising - and the methods for analysing them. Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture is of interest to both teachers and students of modern Japan and cultural studies world-wide.

Contains the essay: Murakami Haruki and Japan Today by Aoki Tamotsu

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Protoculture review by James Standen Taylor

Review by Nelson H. H. Graburn from Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 429-432

 

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