Shōjo Across Media: Exploring Girl Practices in Contemporary Japan 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Berndt, Jaqueline (Editor), Nagaike, Kazumi (Editor), Ogi, Fusami (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030014843 ISBN-13: 9783030014841 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies - Performing Arts | Film - General |
Dewey: 302.23 |
Series: East Asian Popular Culture |
Physical Information: 1.31" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.82 lbs) 397 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |