Millennial Monsters - Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Anne Allison is Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University! and author of Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers! Comics! and Censorship in Japan (UC Press! 2000) and Nightwork: Sexuality! Pleasure! and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994). Klappentext Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese consumer culture--including manga (comic books), anime (animation), video games, and toys--and questions the make-up of fantasies nand capitalism that have spurred the industry's growth. Zusammenfassung Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, this book explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword 1. Enchanted Commodities 2. From Ashes to Cyborgs: The Era of Reconstruction (1945–1960) 3. Millennial Japan: Intimate Alienation and New Age Intimacies 4. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The First Crossover Superheroes 5. Fierce Flesh: Sexy Schoolgirls in the Action Fantasy of Sailor Moon 6. Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence 7. Pokémon: Getting Monsters and Communicating Capitalism 8. “Gotta Catch ’Em All”: The Pokémonization of America (and the World) Epilogue Notes References Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anne Allison
• Con la collaborazione di: Gary Cross (Prefazione), Cross Gary (Prefazione)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.07.2006
• EAN: 9780520245655
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24565-5
• Pagine: 356
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Serie: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia: Local Studies/Global The; Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte; Japan, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General