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Embracing differences : transnational cultural flows between Japan and the United States /
The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects of this cross-cultural relationship. Cultural interactions are often accompanied by the term cultural imperialism, a concept that on close scrutiny turns...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Culture & theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Embracing DifferencesTransnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Japanese Terms; Exoticism, Imagination, and the Harajuku Girls; Cultural Imperialism and Globalization; Gazing the Japanese; Transnationalism; Rethinking Japanese-American Cultural Relations; "Here Be Monsters": Early Japanese-American Cultural Exchanges; Japanese Monsters and American Barbarians; Reciprocal Cultural Influences; Yōkoso Mickey Mouse! Disney in Japan; American Fantasyscapes; The Disneyfication of America and the World?; Tokyo Disney Resort
- Wonderland Re-VisitedA Taste of Difference: Sushi in the United States; Of Rice and Meat: A Short History of Japanese and American Food Relations; Japanese Food in Culinary Texts; Enter the Dragon Roll: Consuming Sushi in the United States; Imagining Sushi Otherwise; Could We Have a Geisha in This Scene? Transnational Depictions of Japan in Contemporary Hollywood Movies; Flashback: Orientalizing Japan in Movies; Subtitles and Subversion: Transnational Cinema; The Last Samurai: A Masculine East; Tokyo Irasshaimase! Two Americans Lost in Translation
- Letters from Iwo Jima: Japanese Writings
- American PicturesPreview: A Transnational Turn in Hollywood; Conclusion; Bibliography; Internet Sources; Movies; Miscellaneous; TV Series; Music; Index