The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well known or studied. Organized into five thematic sections, the chapters span a diverse range of cultural genres, including contemporary film and television, postwar cinema, advertising, popular fiction, men’s magazines, manga and anime, karaoke and digital media. They address issues critical to contemporary Japanese society: the politicization of history, authenticity and representation, constructions of identity, trauma and social disaffection, intersectionality and trans/nationalism. Drawing on methods and approaches from a range of disciplines, the chapters make explicit the interconnections between these areas of research and map out possible trajectories for future inquiry. As such, the handbook will be of value to both novice scholars and seasoned researchers, working within and/or beyond the Japanese media studies remit.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Forum Mithani and Griseldis Kirsch
- Introduction
- Griseldis Kirsch and Forum Mithani
- Part 1: Reimagining History
- 1. Imagining Alternative Pasts: ImperialNostalgia on Japanese Television
- 2. Truth and Limitations:Japanese Media and Disasters
- 3. Solace or Criticism? The Representationof the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster inTelevision Dramas and Films
- Part 2: Transitions and Transcultural Flows
- 4. Red-Light Bases (1953):A Cross-Temporal Contact Zone
- 5. Creating the Youth Star System in Japan: Transnational and Transmedia Phenomena
- 6. Film and Television: Looking Beyond a Historic Rivalry
- 7. Remaking Revenge: Transnational Television Drama Flows and the Remaking of the Korean Drama Mawangin Japan
- Part 3: Franchises and Formats
- 8. Media Mix: Theorizing and Historicizing Japanese Franchising
- 9. Nihilistamina: Gloomy Heroisms in Contemporary Anime
- Artur Lozano-Méndez and Antonio Loriguillo-López
- 10. A Television Flagship Sailing the 10 Currents of a Changing Media World: NHK’s Morning Drama (asadora) in the 21st Century
- Part 4: Gender and Media
- 11. Japanese Popular Fiction: Constraint, Violence and Freedom in Kirino Natsuo’s Out
- 12. Intersections of Difference: Sex, Gender and Disability in Japanese Visual Media
- 13. Marketing Men (,) Silencing Men: The Sapporo Beer-Mifune Campaign and Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Advertising
- 14. Japanese Men’s Magazines: (Re)producing Hybrid Masculinities
- Part 5: Audiences and Users
- 15. Japanese Audiences, and Japanese Audience Studies
- 16. The Serious Business of Song: Karaoke as Discipline and Industry in Japan
- 17. Studying Digital Media in the Diasporic Transnationalism Context: The Case of International Migrants in Japan
- Index
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