Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan`s Lost Generation, Mimi Okabe

Автор: Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma
Название: Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan
ISBN: 1496807766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496807762
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In recent decades, "Boys Love" (BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship.

Автор: McLelland Mark, Nagaike Kazumi, Suganuma Katsuhiko
Название: Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan
ISBN: 1628461195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628461190
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 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"" (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of ""boys love,"" and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally.This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.

Автор: Nagayama, Kaoru
Название: Erotic comics in japan
ISBN: 9463727124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463727129
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world. While it is often observed that these media forms appeal to broad and diverse demographics, including many adults, eroticism continues to unsettle critics and has even triggered legal action in some jurisdictions. It is more urgent than ever to engage in productive discussion, which begins with being informed about content that is still scarcely understood outside small industry and fan circles. Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga is the most comprehensive introduction in English to erotic comics in Japan, or eromanga. Divided into three parts, it provides a history of eroticism in Japanese comics and cartoons generally leading to the emergence of eromanga specifically, an overview of seven themes running across works with close analysis of outstanding examples and a window onto ongoing debates surrounding regulation and freedom of expression in Japan.

Автор: Patrick W. Galbraith
Название: Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
ISBN: 1478005092 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005094
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.

Автор: Brienza, Casey
Название: Global Manga
ISBN: 0367598892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367598891
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Okuyama
Название: T?jisha Manga
ISBN: 3031008391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783031008399
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book defines tojisha manga as Japan`s autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image.

Автор: Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Название: Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime and Religion in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: 0824835891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824835897
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Описание: Manga and Anime exert tremendous influence on contemporary Japanese culture and are increasingly consumed abroad. This book examines these two related genres of popular culture from the perspective of religion, utilizing historical and ethnographic methods. The author approaches his subject in three ways 1) as vehicles for religious imagery, 2) as texts that can inspire new religious practices, and 3) as stimuli for novel religious movements. He argues not only that content found in manga and anime can be characterized as religious but also that some practices of rendition and reception of these popular cultural forms can be similarly described.

Автор: Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Название: Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime and Religion in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: 0824836545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824836542
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Описание: Manga and anime (illustrated serial novels and animated films) are highly influential Japanese entertainment media that boast tremendous domestic consumption as well as worldwide distribution and an international audience. <em>Drawing on Tradition </em>examines religious aspects of the culture of manga and anime production and consumption through a methodological synthesis of narrative and visual analysis, history, and ethnography. Rather than merely describing the incidence of religions such as Buddhism or Shinto in these media, Jolyon BarakaThomas shows that authors and audiences create and re-create “religious frames of mind” through their imaginative and ritualised interactions with illustrated worlds. Manga and anime therefore not only contribute to familiarity with traditional religious doctrines and imagery, but also allow authors, directors, and audiences to modify and elaborate upon such traditional tropes, sometimes creating hitherto unforeseen religious ideas and practices.<br><br>The book takes play seriously by highlighting these recursive relationships between recreation and religion, emphasising throughout the double sense of play as entertainment and play as adulteration (i.e., the whimsical or parodic representation of religious figures, doctrines, and imagery). Building on recent developments in academic studies of manga and anime—as well as on recent advances in the study of religion as related to art and film—Thomas demonstrates that the specific aesthetic qualities and industrial dispositions of manga and anime invite practices of rendition and reception that can and do influence the ways that religious institutions and lay authors have attempted to captivate new audiences.<br><br><em>Drawing on Tradition </em>will appeal to both the dilettante and the specialist: Fans and self-professed otaku will find an engaging academic perspective on often overlooked facets of the media and culture of manga and anime, while scholars and students of religion will discover a fresh approach to the complicated relationships between religion and visual media, religion and quotidian practice, and the putative differences between “traditional” and “new” religions.