Shōjo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan (1st ed. 2019) (East Asian Popular Culture)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2019

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030014858

Related ISBNs:

9783030014841

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

12/26/22

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government

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Edited by:

Jaqueline Berndt

Edited by:

Kazumi Nagaike

Edited by:

Fusami Ogi