Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture
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"Born out of an editor's inability to find a suitable book for teaching the subject, this is a welcome title. The Handbook includes articles on life-style and popular culture in urban Japan, popular architecture, new religions, the performing arts manzai and rakugo, popular film, television, sports, popular music, comics, science fiction, and mystery literature, and ends with an excellent concluding chapter. Contributors are both Japanese and American. Japanese sources are heavily cited throughout. The semantic differences between the Japanese and American concepts of the term `popular culture' present a problem, as traditional, folk, mass, and public culture, as well as fashions and fads, are often hardly distinguishable in the Japanese context. . . . [T]his is a fine contribution in a field where works in English are seriously lacking. . . . Recommended for research and/or large university libraries."
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“Born out of an editor's inability to find a suitable book for teaching the subject, this is a welcome title. The Handbook includes articles on life-style and popular culture in urban Japan, popular architecture, new religions, the performing arts manzai and rakugo, popular film, television, sports, popular music, comics, science fiction, and mystery literature, and ends with an excellent concluding chapter. Contributors are both Japanese and American. Japanese sources are heavily cited throughout. The semantic differences between the Japanese and American concepts of the term `popular culture' present a problem, as traditional, folk, mass, and public culture, as well as fashions and fads, are often hardly distinguishable in the Japanese context. . . . [T]his is a fine contribution in a field where works in English are seriously lacking. . . . Recommended for research and/or large university libraries.”–
“Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture is an admirable effort to survey and introduce the popular culture of a culture quite different from that of the Western countries. Essays examine TV, architecture, religions, SF, comics, etc. . . . I found the book a most welcome addition to the (in America separate) field. . . .”–
“. . . That the contributors think individually about the meaning and uses of popular culture considerably enriches this volume. . . . the editors see their volume as "a touchstone for specialists." It is designed for teachers, all of its authors are academics, and it is not intended as an interpretative book. It is a companion volume in an academic series and contains sections on reference works and research collections.”–
Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture
Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture,Richard Gid Powers,Hidetoshi Kato,Bruce Stronach,Greenwood Press,0313239223,1945-,Asia - Japan,Civilization,History - General History,Japan,Popular Culture,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Sociology,Social Science / Popular Culture
Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture
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