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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael bourdaghs”
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  • The Dawn That Never Comes

    Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism

    by Michael Bourdaghs ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872–1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan.Analyzing ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

    A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop

    by Michael Bourdaghs ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

    by Sōseki Natsume ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Japanoise

    Music at the Edge of Circulation

    by David Novak ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.For ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Anime’s Media Mix

    Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan

    by Marc Steinberg ...
    In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that is today called “media mix” in Japan and “convergence” in the West.According to Steinberg, both anime and the media mix were ignited on January 1 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams

    Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

    Edited by Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Takayuki Tatsumi ...
    Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    by Alisa Freedman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Boys Love Manga and Beyond

    History, Culture, and Community in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, James Welker ...
    Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation.In recent decades, “Boys Love” ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Counterculture Kaleidoscope

    Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco

    by Nadya Zimmerman ...
    Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion and opposition, its truth is much more complex.In a bold reconsideration of the late sixties ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Japanese Visual Culture

    Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime

    by Mark W. MacWilliams ...
    Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture. Because they tell stories through visual imagery, they vault over language barriers. Well suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Blue Nippon

    Authenticating Jazz in Japan

    by E. Taylor Atkins ...
    Japan’s jazz community—both musicians and audience—has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz “can’t swing.” In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japan’s own attitude toward jazz is founded on this ... Read more

    $22.29 USD