The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shojo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	East Asian Popular Culture
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Raechel Dumas
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	217
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-92464-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	3-319-92464-8
Barcode:	9783319924649

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