Otaku : Japan's database animals /

"Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan's leading public intellectuals, otaku culture mirrors the transformations of postwar Japanese society and the n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Azuma, Hiroki, 1971- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Abel, Jonathan E., 1971- (Traductor), Kono, Shion, 1972- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
Edición:[English edition].
Temas:
Since 1945
Subculture > Japan.
Popular culture > Japan.
Animated films > Japan.
Subculture > Japon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Animated films
Civilization
Popular culture
Subculture
Japan > Civilization > 1945-
Japon > Civilisation > 1945-
Japan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma
  • Translators' introduction
  • What is otaku culture?
  • The otaku's pseudo-Japan
  • The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material
  • Otaku and postmodernity
  • Narrative consumption
  • The grand nonnarrative
  • Moe-elements
  • Database consumption
  • The simulacra and the database
  • Snobbery and the fictional age
  • The dissociated human
  • The animal age
  • Hyperflatness and hypervisuality
  • Multiple personality.

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