Format:
Online-Ressource (XIX, 397 p. 11 illus., 8 illus. in color, online resource)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN:
9783030014858
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9783030014858
Series Statement:
East Asian Popular Culture
Content:
Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shōjo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shōjo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shōjo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century-discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology-this volume shifts the focus to shōjo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shōjo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape
Content:
Part I: Shōjo Manga -- 1. Romance of the Taishō School Girl in Shōjo Manga: Here Comes Miss Modern (Alisa Freedman) -- 2. Redefining Shōjo and Shōnen Manga through Language Patterns (Giancarla Unser-Schutz) -- 3. Shōjo Manga Beyond Shōjo Manga: The “Female Mode of Address” in Kabukumon (Olga Antononoka) -- Part II: Shōjo beyond Manga -- 4. Practicing Shōjo in Japanese New Media and Cyberculture: Analyses of the Cell Phone Novel and Dream Novel (Kazumi Nagaike and Raymond Langley) -- 5. The Shōjo in the Rōjo: Enchi Fumiko’s Representation of the Rōjo Who Refused to Grow Old (Sohyun Chun) -- 6. Mediating Otome in the Discourse of War Memory: Complexity of Memory-Making through Postwar Japanese War Films (Kaori Yoshida) -- 7. Shōjo in Anime: Beyond the Object of Men’s Desire(Akiko Sugawa-Shimada) -- Part III: Shōjo Performances -- 8. A Dream Dress for Girls: Milk, Fashion and Shōjo Identity (Masafumi Monden) -- 9. Sakura ga meijiru-Unlocking the Shōjo Wardrobe: Cosplay, Manga, 2.5D Space(Emerald L. King) -- 10. Multilayered Performers: The Takarazuka Musical Revue as Media (Sonoko Azuma, Translated by Raymond Langley and Nick Hall) -- 11. Sounds and Sighs: “Voice Porn” for Women (Minori Ishida, Translated by Nick Hall) -- Part IV: Shōjo Fans -- 12. From Shōjo to Bangya(ru): Women and Visual Kei (Adrienne Johnson) -- 13. Shōjo Fantasies of Inhabiting Cool Japan: Reimagining Fukuoka Through Shōjo and Otome Ideals with Cosplay Tourism(Craig Norris) -- 14. Seeking an Alternative: “Male” Shōjo Fans since the 1970s (Patrick W. Galbraith)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030014841
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030014841
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030014865
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-030-01484-1
Additional Edition:
Printed edition ISBN 9783030014841
Additional Edition:
Printed edition ISBN 9783030014865
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-01485-8
Author information:
Berndt, Jaqueline 1963-
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