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Pornography’s impact on transnational models of media aesthetics
and governance has been well documented from a Euro-American
perspective. This book contributes to the field of pornography
studies by rethinking the cultural impact of pornography as
audio-visual and online media from an East Asian perspective. It
focuses on pornographies made and consumed in and across Japan,
Korea, China, and Hong Kong. The chapters examine under-reported
East Asian cultures of pornography, not only to uncover phenomena
from within this region but also to challenge and fine-tune
existing academic research networks and paradigms. This book
proposes that the lived experience of producing and consuming
various pornographies throughout East Asia may extend, nuance,
challenge, or even affirm the dominant Euro-American understandings
of pornography that are becoming increasingly axiomatic within
pornography studies as an emerging interdisciplinary field of
study. This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Porn Studies.
The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young
female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge
oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen
almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has
become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose
fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan
works. BL’s male–male romantic and sexual relationships have
found a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where
strong local fan communities and locally produced BL works have
garnered a following throughout the region, taking on new meanings
and engendering widespread cultural effects. Queer Transfigurations
is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across
Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL
media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries
in East, Southeast, and South Asia—and beyond. Contributors draw
on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including
anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history,
literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed
light on BL media and its fandoms. Queer Transfigurations reveals
the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it
is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural
contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the
status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local
understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia. In short,
Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first
BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate
and transform lives.
Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has
radically transformed due to the emergence of “Boys Love” (BL)
soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men.
Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational
Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this
increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon.
Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals
BL’s impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media
culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through
new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom. The author
explores how the rise of BL has transformed contemporary Thai
consumer culture, leading to heterosexual female fans of male
celebrities who perform homoeroticism becoming the main audience to
whom Thai pop culture is geared. Through the case study of BL, this
book thus also investigates how Thai media is responding to broader
regional trends across Asia where the economic potentials of female
and queer fans are becoming increasingly important. Baudinette
ultimately argues that the center of queer cultural production in
Asia has shifted from Japan to Thailand, investigating both the
growing international fandom of Thailand’s BL series as well as
the influence of international investment into the development of
these media. The book particularly focuses on specific case studies
of the fandom for Thai BL celebrity couples in Thailand, China, the
Philippines, and Japan to explore how BL series have transformed
each of these national contexts’ queer consumer cultures.
The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young
female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge
oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen
almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has
become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose
fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan
works. BL's male-male romantic and sexual relationships have found
a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where strong
local fan communities and locally produced BL works have garnered a
following throughout the region, taking on new meanings and
engendering widespread cultural effects. Queer Transfigurations is
the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across
Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL
media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries
in East, Southeast, and South Asia--and beyond. Contributors draw
on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including
anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history,
literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed
light on BL media and its fandoms. Queer Transfigurations reveals
the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it
is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural
contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the
status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local
understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia. In short,
Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first
BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate
and transform lives.
Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled
with bars and clubs targeting the city's gay male community.
Typically understood as a "safe space" where same-sex attracted men
and women from across Japan's largest city can gather to find
support from a relentlessly heteronormative society, Regimes of
Desire reveals that the neighborhood may not be as welcoming as
previously depicted in prior literature. Through fieldwork
observation and interviews with young men who regularly frequent
the neighborhood's many bars, the book reveals that the district is
instead a space where only certain performances of gay identity are
considered desirable. In fact, the district is highly stratified,
with Shinjuku Ni-chome's bar culture privileging "hard" masculine
identities as the only legitimate expression of gay desire and thus
excluding all those men who supposedly "fail" to live up to these
hegemonic gendered ideals. Through careful analysis of media such
as pornographic videos, manga comics, lifestyle magazines, and
online dating services, this book argues that the commercial
imperatives of the Japanese gay media landscape and the bar culture
of Shinjuku Ni-chome act together to limit the agency of young gay
men so as to better exploit them economically. Exploring the direct
impacts of media consumption on the lives of four key informants
who frequent the district's gay bars in search of community, fun,
and romance, Regimes of Desire reveals the complexity of Tokyo's
most popular "gay town" and intervenes in debates over the changing
nature of masculinity in contemporary Japan.
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