Joseph Tobin / Will Derusha / Alberto Acereda

Pikachu's Global Adventure

The Rise and Fall of Pokemon
Herausgeber: Tobin, Joseph

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Produktbeschreibung

Pokemon in a transnational and multidisciplinary perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332503
• ISBN-10: 0822332507
• Artikelnr.: 21120643

Autorenporträt

Joseph Tobin, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Contexts and Issues
1. Introduction / Joseph Tobin 3
2. Structure, Agency, and Pedagogy in Children's Media Culture / David
Buckingham and Julian Sefton-Green 1
3. Cuteness as Japan's Millennial Product / Anne Allison 34
II Global Circulation
4. How "Japanese" Is Pokemon? / Kiochi Iwabuchi 53
5. Localizing the Pokemon TV Series for the American Market / Hirofumi
Katsuno and Jeffery Maret 80
6. Panic Attacks: Anti-Pokemon voices in Global Markets / Christine R. Yano
108
III Places and Practices
7. Initiation Rites: A Small Boy in a Poke-World / Julian Sefton-Green 141
8. Pokemon in Israel / Dafna Lemish and Linda-Renee Bloch 165
9. How Much Is a Pokemon Worth? Pokemon in France / Gilles Brougere 187
IV Pokemon Goes to School
10. Localizing Pokemon through Narrative Play / Helen Bromley 211
11. The Multiple Identities of Pokemon Fans / Rebekah Willett 226
12. Masculinity, Maturity, and the End of Pokemon / Samuel Tobin 241
13. Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of the Pokemon Empire / Joseph Tobin 257
Contributors 293
Index 295