Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan
Historical Perspectives and New Horizons
With the spread of manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese cartoons) around the world, many have adopted the Japanese term 'otaku' to identify fans of such media. The connection to manga and anime may seem straightforward, but, when taken for granted, often serves to obscure the debates within and around media fandom in Japan since the term 'otaku' appeared in the niche publication Manga Burikko in 1983. Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan disrupts the naturalization and trivialization of 'otaku' by examining the historical contingency of the term as a way to identify and contain problematic youth, consumers and fan cultures in Japan. It…
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Weitere Autoren: Kam, Thiam Huat (Hrsg.) / Kamm, Björn-Ole (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-9498-3
- EAN: 9781472594983
- Produktnummer: 18433995
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'209 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Patrick W. Galbraith has a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan and is currently pursuing a second Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, USA. He is the author of The Otaku Encyclopedia (2009), Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara (2010), Otaku Spaces (2012) and The Moe Manifesto (2014), as well as the co-editor of Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (2012).Thiam Huat Kam is a Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies at Rutgers University, USA.Björn-Ole Kamm is a researcher and lecturer at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan.
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