Boys Love Manga and Beyond : History, Culture, and Community in Japan /

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Boys Love (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists. By the late 1970s, many amateur women fans were getting involved and creating and self-publishing...

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Other Authors: Welker, James (Editor), Suganuma, Katsuhiko (Editor), Nagaike, Kazumi (Editor), McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Young women > Books and reading.
Young gay men.
Women cartoonists.
Sex in popular culture.
Romance comic books, strips, etc.
Girls > Books and reading.
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > Manga > Fantasy.
Sexualite dans la culture populaire > Japon.
Filles > Livres et lecture > Japon.
Jeunes femmes > Livres et lecture > Japon.
Bandes dessinees sentimentales.
Sex in popular culture > Japan.
Girls > Books and reading > Japan.
Young women > Books and reading > Japan.
Women cartoonists > Japan.
Young gay men > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc.
Japan.
Bandes dessinees.
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Boys Love (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists. By the late 1970s, many amateur women fans were getting involved and creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these encouraged a surge in the number of commercial titles. Today, a wide range of products, produced both by professionals and amateurs, is rapidly gaining a global audience. This book provides an overview of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9781626740662

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