Shojo Across Media - Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shojo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shojo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan's modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shojo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shojo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century-discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology-this volume shifts the focus to shojo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shojo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	East Asian Popular Culture
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Jaqueline Berndt • Kazumi Nagaike • Fusami Ogi
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	397
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-001484-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	3-03-001484-3
Barcode:	9783030014841

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