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The Japanification of children's popular culture : from Godzilla to Miyazaki /

A variety of contributors discuss the impact of such Japanese cultural exports as anime, manga, and electronic/video games and explain why these forms of culture are so popular with many American children.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: West, Mark I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Godzilla, the evolving monster / Dale Pike
  • Reptar: the rugrats meet Godzilla / Jan Susina
  • Invasion of the Japanese monsters: a home-front report / Mark I. West
  • Hello Kitty in America / Kathy Merlock Jackson
  • The allure of anthropomorphism in manga and Animé / Fred Patten
  • We all live in a Pokémon world: animated utopia for kids / Cary Eliza
  • Pokemon as theater: training the pocket monsters of self and consumerism / Mark Pizzato
  • Japanese dominance of the video-game industry and the future of interactive media / Joe Wezorek
  • Jet-set kids: mutation/seduction/hybridization / Derek A. Burrill
  • Interviews with adolescent Animé fans / Brent Allison
  • North America reactions to Yaoi / Antonia Levi
  • Paradigm lost: how the rising ubiquity of all things Japanese ruined the national pastime for one American father / Bill Davis
  • Two worlds, united by Animé / Elizabeth Flynn
  • The cross-cultural appeal of the characters in Manga and Animé / Hiroaki Hatayama
  • The censorship of Japanese Animé in America: do American children need to be protected from Dragon Ball? / Rieko Okugara
  • Early Japanese animation in the United States: changing Tetsuwan Atomu to Astro Boy / Brian Ruh
  • Inu Yasha: the search for the jewel of four souls in America / Nicoloe Farrell
  • Folklore and gender inversion in Cardcaptor Sakura / Bill Ellis
  • Anima and Animé: environmental perspectives and new frontiers in Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away / Nathalie op de Beeck.