Dialectics of the Goddess in Japanese Audiovisual Culture

This collection of essays analyzes the audiovisual representation of goddesses in Japanese popular culture. It proposes a dialectics of the different conceptions of the feminine as taken up in Japanese film, television, and video games.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Representations of Goddesses in Japanese Audiovisual Culture: A New Concept
Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
1. Kannon-sama and the Spirit of Compassion in Japanese Cinema
Linda C. Ehrlich
2. Suffering and Deification: The Goddess in Night Drum
Sybil A. Thornton
3. The Profound Desire of the Goddess: Sexuality and Politics in The Insect Woman
Irene González-López
4. Anime Goddesses and their Hollywood Transformations
Dolores P. Martinez
5. Deviant Attitudes, Lost Names and the Ether: Goddesses in Contemporary Japanese Audiovisuals
José Montaño
6. The Humanization of the Goddess: Isao Takahata's Princess Kaguya
Laura Montero
7. Goddesses in Japanese Videogames: Tradition, Gameplay, Gender, and Power
Víctor Navarro-Remesal
8. Ghostly Goddesses in in Japanese Cinema
Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
Notes on contributors

About the author

Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano is senior lecturer at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

Summary

This collection of essays analyzes the audiovisual representation of goddesses in Japanese popular culture. It proposes a dialectics of the different conceptions of the feminine as taken up in Japanese film, television, and video games.

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
• Assisted by: Lorenzo J Torres Hortelano (Editor), Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano (Editor), Torres Hortelano Lorenzo J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498570145
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7014-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology