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Navigating contradiction : female characters, normative femininity and self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese narrative and visual cultureHansen, Gitte Marianne January 2014 (has links)
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Returning to Asia : Japan in the cultural dynamics of globalisation, localisation and Asianisation /Iwabuchi, Koichi. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1999. / Bibliography p. 289-312.
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Islands of eight-million smiles : pop-idol performances and the field of symbolic productionAoyagi, Hiroshi 11 1900 (has links)
This dissertation focuses on the production and development of a conspicuous, widespread
culture phenomenon in contemporary Japan, which is characterized by numerous young, mediapromoted
personalities, or pop-idols, who are groomed for public consumption. The research,
based on eighteen months of in-depth fieldwork in the Japanese entertainment industry, aims to
contribute to the understanding of the allegorical role played by pop-idols in the creation of
youth culture. Pop-idols are analyzed as personified symbols that function as vehicles of
cultural production. The principal issues suggested in this research include: the criteria of popidol
production; the ways in which pop-idols are produced; the perceptions of pop-idol
performances by producers, performers, and consumers; the ways in which idol personalities are
differentiated from each other; the ways in which pop-idol performances are distinguished from
other styles or genres; and the social, cultural, political, economic, and historical roots as well
as consequences of pop-idols' popularity. These issues are explored through the examination of
female pop-idols.
The single, most important function of pop-idols is to represent young people's fashions,
customs, and lifestyles. To this end, the pop-idol industry generates a variety of styles that can
provide the young audience with pathways toward appropriate adulthood. They do this within
their power structure as well as their commercial interest to capitalize on adolescence - which
in Japan is considered the period in which individuals are expected to explore themselves in the
adult social world. The stylized promotion, practiced differently by promotion agencies that
strive to merchandise pop-idol images and win public recognition, constitutes a field of
symbolic contestation. The stage is thus set for an investigation of the strategies, techniques,
and processes of adolescent identity formation as reified in the construction of idol
personalities.
This dissertation offers a contextualized account of dialogue that occurs between capitalism,
particular rhetoric of self-making, and the lifestyle of consumers, mediated by pop-idols and
their manufacturing agencies that function together as the cultural apparatus. The analysis
developed in this dissertation hopes to provide theoretical and methodological contributions to
the study of celebrities in other social, cultural, and historical settings.
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Islands of eight-million smiles : pop-idol performances and the field of symbolic productionAoyagi, Hiroshi 11 1900 (has links)
This dissertation focuses on the production and development of a conspicuous, widespread
culture phenomenon in contemporary Japan, which is characterized by numerous young, mediapromoted
personalities, or pop-idols, who are groomed for public consumption. The research,
based on eighteen months of in-depth fieldwork in the Japanese entertainment industry, aims to
contribute to the understanding of the allegorical role played by pop-idols in the creation of
youth culture. Pop-idols are analyzed as personified symbols that function as vehicles of
cultural production. The principal issues suggested in this research include: the criteria of popidol
production; the ways in which pop-idols are produced; the perceptions of pop-idol
performances by producers, performers, and consumers; the ways in which idol personalities are
differentiated from each other; the ways in which pop-idol performances are distinguished from
other styles or genres; and the social, cultural, political, economic, and historical roots as well
as consequences of pop-idols' popularity. These issues are explored through the examination of
female pop-idols.
The single, most important function of pop-idols is to represent young people's fashions,
customs, and lifestyles. To this end, the pop-idol industry generates a variety of styles that can
provide the young audience with pathways toward appropriate adulthood. They do this within
their power structure as well as their commercial interest to capitalize on adolescence - which
in Japan is considered the period in which individuals are expected to explore themselves in the
adult social world. The stylized promotion, practiced differently by promotion agencies that
strive to merchandise pop-idol images and win public recognition, constitutes a field of
symbolic contestation. The stage is thus set for an investigation of the strategies, techniques,
and processes of adolescent identity formation as reified in the construction of idol
personalities.
This dissertation offers a contextualized account of dialogue that occurs between capitalism,
particular rhetoric of self-making, and the lifestyle of consumers, mediated by pop-idols and
their manufacturing agencies that function together as the cultural apparatus. The analysis
developed in this dissertation hopes to provide theoretical and methodological contributions to
the study of celebrities in other social, cultural, and historical settings. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate
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Becoming imaginable : Japanese gay male identity as mediated through popular cultureDobbins, Jeffrey. January 2000 (has links)
This thesis will examine how gay men are depicted in mainstream Japanese pop culture. To be discussed are: gay-themed comics for girls, mainstream movies in which the protagonists are gay, and finally, gay men's magazines which are gay authored and consumed. In examining how fantasies in these texts respond to the needs of various readerships, it is possible to understand how important and challenging it is for gay Japanese men to create identities of their own, identities which will allow them more possibilities than the prevailing facade of compulsory heterosexuality, complete with marriage and children.
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Becoming imaginable : Japanese gay male identity as mediated through popular cultureDobbins, Jeffrey. January 2000 (has links)
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A cultura otaku no Brasil: da obsessão à criação de um Japão imaginado / The otaku culture in Brazil: from the obsession to the creation of an imagined JapanSantos, André Noro dos 27 November 2017 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2017-11-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The objective of this thesis is to analyze the behavior of the Brazilian otakus and how they
imagine and translate their obsession with the Japanese culture. As an empirical object we chose
the manga created by Brazilians and some otaku communities reunited in social networks and
pop culture events. The hypothesis is that in the translation of the otaku culture and its media
products, rather than a language search that could generate, for example, a "mongrel manga",
is the mimesis and the assimilation of a behavior and a way of life which, in the Brazilian
version, becomes quite unique and, not rarely, distant from some stereotypes generated by the
Japanese themselves. In this regard, we observe that the Brazilian otakus have nothing to do
with the image of the introspective otakus that marked the beginning of the movement in Japan.
The theoretical fundation was based on foreign (e.g. Azuma and LaMarre) and Brazilian (e.g.
Luyten, Nunes and Almeida) bibliographies that analyzed the phenomenon. In methodological
terms, the research was also extended to the social networks, which constitute the major means
of communication of the otakus, as well as to places of concentration of these groups such as
the Liberdade neighborhood in São Paulo. The results indicate that the Brazilian otaku culture
was gradually becoming another way of commercializing an imagined Japan (Greiner 2015 and
2017), differing from other experiences by focusing exclusively on Japanese culture, without
adopting a generic Asian image / O objetivo desta tese é analisar o comportamento dos otakus brasileiros e o modo como
imaginam e traduzem a sua obsessão pela cultura japonesa. Como objeto empírico elegemos
o mangá criado por brasileiros e algumas comunidades otaku reunidas em redes sociais e
eventos de cultura pop. A hipótese é que na tradução da cultura otaku e de seus produtos
midiáticos, mais do que uma pesquisa de linguagem que poderia gerar, por exemplo, um
“mangá mestiço”, trata-se da mimese e da assimilação de um comportamento e de um modo de
vida que, na versão dos brasileiros, torna-se bastante singular e, não raramente, distante de
alguns estereótipos gerados pelos próprios japoneses. Neste sentido, observamos que os otakus
brasileiros nada têm a ver com a imagem dos otakus introspectivos que marcaram o início do
movimento no Japão. A fundamentação teórica partiu de bibliografias estrangeiras (e.g. Azuma
e LaMarre) e brasileiras (e.g. Luyten, Nunes e Almeida) que analisaram o fenômeno. Em termos
metodológicos, a pesquisa foi também ampliada para as redes sociais, que se constituem como
o principal meio de comunicação dos otakus, assim como para locais de concentração desses
grupos, como o bairro da Liberdade em São Paulo. Os resultados indicam que a
cultura otaku brasileira foi, aos poucos, se transformando em mais um meio de comercialização
de um Japão imaginado (Greiner, 2015 e 2017), diferenciando-se de outras experiências por
focar exclusivamente na cultura japonesa, sem adotar uma imagem genérica asiática
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Ugly ducklings: the construction and deconstruction of gender in Shôjo MangaRicard, Jennifer January 2005 (has links)
This thesis examines shojo manga (Japanese comics for girls) as a site of the subversion of gender. The focus will be on stories about cross-dressing, as the crossdressed heroine poses from the outset questions about the nature of girls within shojo manga and the girls who are supposedly reading the texts. The analysis takes place at two levels: visual language and narrative. Over the course of five chapters, focusing on a couple of series in each, this thesis will show the various ways categories of gender and sex are undermined in five different subgenres. Yet gender norms are recuperated in the end. The manga always return to the figure of the shojo , the ambiguously gendered "not-quite-female" female that must expire at adulthood and the regulatory function heterosexuality plays in this inevitable demise. Nevertheless shojo manga readers need not necessarily share this end. The various ways that the reader is positioned both visually and narratively suggests that her gender and sexuality remains ambiguous and indefinable.
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Obraz ženy v japonské populární kultuře. / Image of Woman in Japanese Popular Culture in the 2nd half of the 20th centuryKřivánková, Anna January 2016 (has links)
This thesis follows my previous studies of modern Japanese society and popular culture. I will especially focus on gender stereotypes, particularly negative stereotypes concerning women who refuse to bow to a substantial pressure from society endowed with a strong Confucian tradition. It was this very tradition - together with a foreign concept akin to the Western domesticity cult - what gave rise to the ideal of "good wife, wise mother" (rjósai kenbo), which at least in some form remains quite tangible even in contemporary Japanese society. One of the tasks this thesis wants to undertake is to describe how the negative stereotyping of women who stood in either conscious or natural opposition towards this ideal affected portrayal of women in Japanese popular culture (especially comics), which can be a very good perpetuator of all kinds of stereotypes. At the same time, I would like to find out whether it managed to partially subvert at least some of the negative images of women who refused to be good wives and wise mothers. Key words: gender stereotypes, Japan, popular culture, comics, rjósai kenbo, manga
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Ugly ducklings: the construction and deconstruction of gender in Shôjo MangaRicard, Jennifer January 2005 (has links)
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