Asian Popular Culture

New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media
Herausgeber: Lent, John A.; Fitzsimmons, Lorna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Asian Popular Culture explores the evolution and intersection of popular forms (gaming, manga, anime, film, music, YouTube videos) and explicates these media's changing cultural meanings in historical and contemporary contexts. At its core is the issue of the roles popular culture plays in the construction of national and regional identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780739179611
• ISBN-10: 0739179616
• Artikelnr.: 36647040

Autorenporträt

Edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. Weiqi Legends, Then and Now: Cultural Paradigms in
the Game of Go by Marc L. Moskowitz Chapter 2. Locating Play: The Situated
Localities of Portable and Online Gaming in East Asia by Dean Chan Chapter
3. Regionalism in the Era of Neo-Nationalism: Japanese Landscape in the
Background Art of Games and Anime from the Late-1990s to Present by Kumiko
Saito Chapter 4. Otaku Evolution: Changing Views of the Fan-boy in Kon
Satoshi's Perfect Blue and Paprika by Joseph Christopher Schaub Chapter 5.
Breaking Records: Media, Censorship, and the Folk Song Movement of Japan's
1960s by James Dorsey Chapter 6. Mad-Cow Disease and Alternative YouTube
Videos: Brechtian Politics of Aesthetics in Grassroots Media Spectacles,
Voluntary Mobilization, and Collective Governance from Korea's Candlelight
Movements by Gooyong Kim Chapter 7. Reaching Beyond the Manga: A Samurai to
the Ends of the World and the Formation of National Identity by Michael
Wert Chapter 8. Zen Dog: Lian Hearn's Hybrid Otori Pentalogy by Sheng-mei
Ma