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Updates the scholarship of the previous edition and includes seven
brand new chapters. Has a companion website containing images,
videos, further reading lists and discussion questions Teaches
students to build theory from cultural objects Designed for
undergraduate teaching by experienced teachers of Japanese popular
culture
Updates the scholarship of the previous edition and includes seven
brand new chapters. Has a companion website containing images,
videos, further reading lists and discussion questions Teaches
students to build theory from cultural objects Designed for
undergraduate teaching by experienced teachers of Japanese popular
culture
This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus
on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's
mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues
to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles
have undergone during the course of the last century.
Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of
spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward,
claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls,
dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses,
international beauty queens, overseas teachers, corporate soccer
players, and even female members of the Self-Defense Forces.
Directly linking gender, mobility, and labor in 20th and 21st
century Japan, this collection brings to life the ways in which
these modern girls--historically and contemporaneously--have
influenced social roles, patterns of daily life, and Japan's global
image. It is an ideal guidebook for students, scholars, and general
readers alike.
This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus
on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's
mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of modern girls continues to
offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have
undergone during the course of the last century.
Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of
spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward,
claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls,
dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses,
international beauty queens, overseas teachers, corporate soccer
players, and even female members of the Self-Defense Forces.
Directly linking gender, mobility, and labor in 20th and 21st
century Japan, this collection brings to life the ways in which
these modern girlsOCohistorically and contemporaneouslyOCohave
influenced social roles, patterns of daily life, and Japan's global
image. It is an ideal guidebook for students, scholars, and general
readers alike.
Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century
enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in
ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that
combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa
Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture
depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social
fabric and artistic movements, giving rise to gender roles that
have come to characterize modern Japan. Freedman persuasively
argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations,
transport workers, and passengers, Japanese authors responded to
contradictions in Tokyo's urban modernity and exposed the effects
of rapid change on the individual. She shines a light on how prewar
transport culture anticipates what is fascinating and frustrating
about Tokyo today, providing insight into how people make
themselves at home in the city. An approachable and enjoyable book,
Tokyo in Transit offers an exciting ride through modern Japanese
literature and culture, and includes the first English translation
of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella
that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning
author.
Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century
enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in
ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that
combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa
Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture
depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social
fabric and artistic movements, giving rise to gender roles that
have come to characterize modern Japan. Freedman persuasively
argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations,
transport workers, and passengers, Japanese authors responded to
contradictions in Tokyo's urban modernity and exposed the effects
of rapid change on the individual. She shines a light on how prewar
transport culture anticipates what is fascinating and frustrating
about Tokyo today, providing insight into how people make
themselves at home in the city. An approachable and enjoyable book,
Tokyo in Transit offers an exciting ride through modern Japanese
literature and culture, and includes the first English translation
of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella
that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning
author.
Specifically designed for use on a range of undergraduate and
graduate courses, Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a
comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide
variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way
into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides
a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that
have shaped artistic production, as well as, politics, society, and
economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of
influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how
popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it.
With contributions from an international team of scholars,
representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology
to art history and media studies, the book's sections include:
Television Videogames Music Popular Cinema Anime Manga Popular
Literature Fashion Contemporary Art Written in an accessible style
by a stellar line-up of international contributors, this textbook
will be essential reading for students of Japanese culture and
society, Asian media and popular culture, and Asian Studies in
general.
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