In this Book
- Television, Japan, and Globalization
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
summary
Television, Japan, and Globalization makes a monumental contribution to the literature of television studies, which has increasingly recognized its problematic focus on US and Western European media, and a compelling intervention in discussions of globalization, through its careful attention to contradictory and complex phenomena on Japanese TV. Case studies include talent and stars, romance, anime, telops, game and talk shows, and live-action nostalgia shows. The book also looks at Japanese television from a political and economic perspective, with attention to Sky TV, production trends, and Fuji TV as an architectural presence in Tokyo.
The combination of textual analysis, clear argument, and historical and economic context makes this book ideal for media studies audiences. Its most important contribution may be moving the study of Japanese popular culture beyond the tired truisms about postmodernism and opening up new lines of thinking about television and popular culture within and between nations.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Why Japanese Television Now?
- pp. 1-6
- Revolutionary Girls: From Oscar to Utena
- pp. 151-172
- Global and Local Materialities of Anime
- pp. 241-258
- Contributors
- pp. 279-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9781929280766
Related ISBN(s)
9781929280582, 9781929280599
MARC Record
OCLC
1017612443
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010