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Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination

By Anne Allison , Gary Cross

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0-520-22148-6, 9780520221482, 9780520245655, 0-520-24565-2, 9780520938991, 0520938992, 9781423771128, 1423771125, 9781601290298, 1601290292
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6530514 bytes)
Series
Asia--local studies/global themes 13
Pages
356\355
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods today while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved. Arguing that part of the appeal of such dream worlds is the polymorphous perversity with which they scramble identity and character, the author traces the postindustrial milieux from which such fantasies have arisen in postwar Japan and been popularly received in the United States.

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