Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination /
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2006.
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| Edice: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
13. |
| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppk4p |
Obsah:
- Enchanted commodities
- From ashes to cyborgs : the era of reconstruction (1945/1960)
- Millennial Japan : intimate alienation and new age intimacies
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : the first crossover superheroes
- Fierce flesh : sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon
- Tamagotchi : the prosthetics of presence
- Pokømon : getting monsters and communicating capitalism
- "Gotta catch 'em all" : the pokømonization of America (and the world).