Introducing Japanese popular culture
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"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 in Japan. 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."--Provided by publisher.
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Introducing Japanese popular culture.
edited by Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2018.
xvii, 551 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English.
ISBNs: 978-1-138-85208-2 (hardcover) 978-1-138-85210-5 (paperback)
Table of contents:
Introducing Japanese popular culture : serious approaches to playful delights / Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade.
Kumamon : Japan’s surprisingly cheeky mascot / Debra J. Occhi.
Hello Kitty is not a cat?!? : tracking Japanese cute culture at home and abroad / Christine R. Yano.
The grotesque hero : depictions of justice in tokusatsu superhero television programs / Hirofumi Katsuno.
Tokyo love story : romance of the workingwoman in Japanese television dramas / Alisa Freedman.
The world too much with us in Japanese travel television / Kendall Heitzman.
Nuclear discourse in Final Fantasy VII : embodied experience and social critique / Rachael Hutchinson.
The cute shall inherit the earth : postapocalyptic posthumanity in Tokyo jungle / Kathryn Hemmann.
Managing manga studies in the convergent classroom / Mark McLelland.
Purikura : expressive energy in female self-photography / Laura Miller.
Studio Ghibli media tourism / Craig Norris.
Hatsune Miku : virtual idol, media platform, and crowd-sourced celebrity / Ian Condry.
Electrifying the Japanese teenager across generations : the role of the electric guitar in Japan’s popular culture / Michael Furmanovsky.
The pop pacific : Japanese-American sojourners and the development of Japanese popular music / Jayson Makoto Chun.
AKB business : idols and affective economies in contemporary Japan / Patrick W. Galbraith.
In search of Japanoise : globalizing underground music / David Novak.
Korean pop music in Japan : understanding the complex relationship between Japan and Korea in the popular culture realm / Eun-Young Jung.
The prehistory of soft power : Godzilla, cheese, and the American consumption of Japan / William M. Tsutsui.
The rise of Japanese horror films : Yotsuya ghost story (Yotsuya kaidan), demonic men, and Victimized women / Kyoko Hirano.
V-cinema : how home video revitalized Japanese film and mystified film historians / Tom Mes.
Apocalyptic animation : in the wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and baudrillard / Alan Cholodenko.
Toy stories : robots and magical girls in anime marketing / Renato Rivera Rusca.
Condensing the media mix : the Tatami galaxy’s multiple possible worlds / Marc Steinberg.
Gekiga, or Japanese alternative comics : the mediascape of Japanese counterculture / Shige (CJ) Suzuki.
Sampling girls’ culture : an analysis of shōjo manga magazines / Jennifer Prough.
The beautiful men of the inner chamber : gender-bending, boys’ love and other shōjo manga tropes in Ōoku / Deborah Shamoon.
Cyborg empiricism : the ghost Is not in the shell / Thomas Lamarre.
Murakami Haruki’s transnational avant-pop literature / Rebecca Suter.
Thumb-generation literature : the rise and fall of Japanese cellphone novels / Alisa Freedman.
Hanabi : The cultural significance of fireworks in Japan / Damien Liu-Brennan.
Kamishibai : the fantasy space of the urban street corner / Sharalyn Orbaugh.
Shibuya : reflective identity in transforming urban space / Izumi Kuroishi.
Akihabara : promoting and policing ‘otaku’ in ‘cool Japan / Patrick W. Galbraith.
Japan lost and found : modern ruins as debris of the economic miracle / Tong Lam.
Cute fashion : the social strategies and aesthetics of kawaii / Toby Slade.
Made in Japan : a new generation fashion designers / Narumi Hiroshi.
Clean-cut : men’s fashion magazines, male aesthetic ideals, and social affinity in Japan / Masafumi Monden.
Superflat life / Tom Looser.
Aida Makoto : notes from an apathetic continent / Adrian Favell.
Art from what is already there on Naoshima and other islands in the Seto Inland Sea / James Jack.
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8/26/17 Matinee Show Notes
alright! here we go…
-The house was significantly fuller than last time. Not close to capacity by any means, but it wasn’t nauseatingly empty. (Of course, at this point it’s not about keeping the show open anymore so it doesn’t matter from that standpoint, but at least the cast gets to perform for a larger audience.)
-The couple seated behind me were talking about the shows of the season, and the guy asked if a different show was her first choice for them to be seeing and and she said “No, Bandstand is!” and that made me happy.
-Keven Quillon as Wayne!! He was amazing… a little off tempo in the beginning as Michael, but by the time he made his entrance in I Know a Guy he hit his stride and it was great. He fully embodied Wayne down to the little quirks, but he did it differently and clearly wasn’t just copying Geoff. (And Geoff is so incredible in the role that I was prepared to be underwhelmed by comparison, but Keven was really impressive in his own way.)
-Ryan Kasprzak was out so Kevin Worley was swung in (side note: apparently Sunday is Kevin’s last show? Happy Trails!), and there was no understudy slip for him but I believe Marc Heitzman did Keven Quillon’s track. They were both great.
-Corey seemed to be having a lot of fun. The dark moments were intense as ever, but the moments of joy felt extra happy.
-No applause for Wayne’s speech this time, but instead, Davy’s “Fuck it” line got applause (in addition to laughter, obviously).
-Nate was visibly desperately trying to hold it together during the applause after Welcome Home… like he was about .05 seconds away from absolutely breaking down, and I think if the curtain had fallen any later he just might have.
-Joe tossed one of his drumsticks into the air at the very end of the Finale (referred to on the soundtrack as ‘Epilogue’) which I had never seen before and thoroughly enjoyed, as it seemed equal parts him and Johnny.
-When Beth came out for her bow, she immediately gestured over to Keven, who beamed. It was adorable. Also, from where I was sitting I could see Nate clap Keven on the back as they walked offstage. The way this cast supports each other is really incredible (and they all deserved better than the way the run played out THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION DESERVED BETTER I’M SO UPS- Anyway. This is not the post for that.)
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okay, there you have it! not much to add at this point, but if you have the means/ability to see the show, do it. it’s worth it, I promise.
-S ❤️
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The 2019 Black Rock City Honoraria Recipients (with links to projects)
The 2019 Black Rock City Honoraria Recipients
Archaeopteryx — Nicholas DeBruyne — London, United Kingdom
Awful’s Gas & Snack — Matthew Gerring and Crank Factory — San Francisco, CA
Bee Divine Hive Temple — Elizabeth Huebner and The Hive — Fairfield, IA
Bee or Not to Bee — Mr & Mrs Ferguson — Alameda, CA
Bounce Back — Sarah Gonsalves and Sassy Galaxy — Los Angeles, CA
Carousel Zarya [More] — Alexander Dovydenkov and Carousel Zarya — Moscow, Russia
Cathenge — David Normal — Stinson Beach, CA
Chakra Cannon — Joshua Pipic and Cannon Crew — Emeryville, CA
Chapel Perilous — Robert Leifheit and Enchanted Booty Forest — Los Angeles, CA [EBF :Patreon link]
Circus Fabulae (Ring of Play, Ring of Stories) — Benjamin Jones and Populus Ludere (Play People) — Brooklyn, NY
Cloud Swing / Cloud Swing Storm — Lindsay Glatz and Miracle Wonderland Carnival Co. — New Orleans, LA
Corpus — Michael Christian — Berkeley, CA
Cosmo — Roger Heitzman — Scotts Valley, CA
Circus Fabulae (Ring of Play, Ring of Stories) — Benjamin Jones and Populus Ludere (Play People) — Brooklyn, NY
Critonium Clock — Alena Starostina — San Francisco, CA [Last year’s art]
Desert WAVE — Anthony Rowe and Squidsoup — Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Elephantes: Hommage au Dali — Jack Champion — Oakland, CA
Fan Coral — Bryson Allen — San Diego, CA
Fragments, 2019 — Marc Ippon de Ronda and ATO Designs Studio — Paris, France
Fucking Useless — Amy Lamboley and Don’t Trust Wizards — San Francisco, CA
Giant Pinball Machine — Benjamin Newman — Roseville, CA
Global Fire and Flow Nexus — Nick Heyming and The Emerald Village — Vista, CA
I.L.Y. — Dan Mountain — Portola Valley, CA
Internal Exposure — Jessica Levine — South Lake Tahoe, CA [2017 & 2018 playa projects here]
Le Metamorphose Des Animaux Extraordinaires — Esmeralda Nadeau-Jasso — Winlaw, Canada
Liberty Neko — Jose Maluenda — Santiago, Chile
Mariposita — Chris Carnabuci — Cold Spring, NY [Examples of Chris’s art]
Mega Mega — Kevin Bourque — Los Angeles, CA [Kevin is ringmaster at Cirque Berzerk in LA]
Metamorphatoad — Taylor Collier — South Lake Tahoe, CA
Night Light Tree — Kathleen Smith — West Hollywood, CA
Niloticus — Peter Hazel — Reno, NV [Prior work: 2017, 2015]
Nirmanakaya — Michael Emery — Santa Cruz, CA
No Place Like Home — Trey Watkins, Mara Greenberg, Alan Becker and Frogma — San Francisco, CA [Prior work: 2017, 2015, other work]
O NOME DA ROSA – Solar ignition fire & mechanical energy generator — Nuno Paulino — Loures, Portugal [Article on artist in Portuguese']
Optical Illusion Wheel — Joe Culpepper — Outremont, Canada
Paraluna — Christopher Schardt — Oakland, CA
Penguin Colony — Quill Hyde and Acavallo — Tonasket, WA [Past project]
Phoenix Rising — Lisa Nigro [more] and Draka Arts — San Antonio, TX
Pieuvre — Kelly Schott and A.S.A.P. Arts Collective — San Diego, CA [prior art]
Plaza of Introspectus — Iron Monkey Arts — Seattle, WA
Portal — David Oliver and Art City Monsters — Ventura, CA
Purr Pods — Stephanie Paige Tashner and Laser Eyes of Love — Richmond, CA [Past work, more]
Puzzles and Prayers – Reinventing the Prayer Wheel — Gwen Darling, Gwen and Josh Art— Reno, NV
Quality of Life — Josh Vaile — Reno, NV [past work]
Reared In Steel’s Fire Kethedral — Kevin Clark and Reared in Steel, LLC — Petaluma, CA
REFUGE — Douglas Kittredge and The Woods West Oakland — Oakland, CA
Sagrada Perihelia — Brandon Harvey — Los Angeles, CA
Serenity — Flaming Lotus Girls — San Francisco, CA
Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale — Blake Marcus and Accidental Adventure — Amherst, MA
Sputnik Theremin — Ulf Ljungdahl — Oxelosund, Sweden
Stone Three Point Twenty Seven — Ben Langholz — Altadena, CA
Syzygy — Taylor Dean Harrison — Oakland, CA [prior work]
Taking Flight — Nicki Adani — Mill Valley, CA
The Bard’s Branch — Pamela Ward — San Francisco, CA
The Beat Box — Frank Myers and The Phage / The Institute — Richmond, CA
The Dollhouse — Tiana Husted and House of Strange Rituals — Eugene, OR
The Flybrary — Christina Sporrong — El Prado, NM
The Folly — Dave Keane and Folly Builders — San Francisco, CA
The Heads — Jeremy Suurkivi and Major Crimes — San Francisco, CA
The Intersection X — Anna Yudina and Invisible Pink Unicorns — Moscow, Russia
The Man’s Army — Michael Ciulla — Los Angeles, CA
The Monumental Mammoth — Tahoe Mack, with The Protectors of Tule Springs, Dana Albany, and Luis Valera- Rico — Las Vegas, NV
The Sabbatical — Andrew White and Neophyte Nexus — Toronto, Canada
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance — Tyson Ayers and Sympathetic Resonances — Oakland, CA
The Spa at Lake Lahontan — Catie Magee, Jennifer Blakeslee, Ben Anderson & Aaron Dana, FLUX Foundation — San Francisco, CA
The Towers of Crete — Daniel Fennelly — Oakland, CA
The Tree of Life — Tyler J. Rivenbark & The Institute for Human Creativity — San Francisco, CA
The Wheels of Zoroaster Resurrection — Anton Viditz-Ward — Telluride, CO (intro banner, past work)
Theophany — Matthew Goodman and Coup De Foudre — San Francisco, CA [past work]
Toxic Unicorn — Madeleine Hamann and Unicorn Liberation Front — San Diego, CA
Transmutation — Arturo Gonzalez and Arte Conciencia S.C. — Saltillo, Mexico
Welcome Home — Joey Howell and Salt Mind — Salt Lake City, UT
Windchest — Ange Sarno — Watertown, MA
Wings of Glory — Adrian Landon and the Dusty Sparks — New York, NY [past work]
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