Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition

Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 Reimagining History
Chapter 1 Imagining Alternative Pasts: Imperial Nostalgia on Japanese Television
Chapter 2 Truth and Limitations: Japanese Media and Disasters
Chapter 3 Solace or Criticism? The Representation of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Television Dramas and Films
Part 2 Transitions and Transcultural Flows
Chapter 4 Red-Light Bases (1953): A Cross-Temporal Contact Zone
Chapter 5 Creating the Youth Star System in Japan: Transnational and Transmedia Phenomena
Chapter 6 Film and Television: Looking Beyond a Historic Rivalry
Chapter 7 Remaking Revenge: Transnational Television Drama Flows and the Remaking of the Korean Drama Mawang in Japan
Part 3 Franchises and Formats
Chapter 8 Media Mix: Theorizing and Historicizing Japanese Franchising
Chapter 9 Nihilistamina: Gloomy Heroisms in Contemporary Anime
Chapter 10 A Television Flagship Sailing the Currents of a Changing Media World: NHK’s Morning Drama (asadora) in the 21st Century
Part 4 Gender and Media
Chapter 11 Japanese Popular Fiction: Constraint, Violence and Freedom in Kirino Natsuo’s Out
Chapter 12 Intersections of Difference: Sex, Gender and Disability in Japanese Visual Media
Chapter 13 Marketing Men (,) Silencing Men: The Sapporo Beer-Mifune Campaign and Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Advertising
Chapter 14 Japanese Men’s Magazines: (Re)producing Hybrid Masculinities
Part 5 Audiences and Users
Chapter 15 Japanese Audiences, and Japanese Audience Studies
Chapter 16 The Serious Business of Song: Karaoke as Discipline and Industry in Japan
Chapter 17 Studying Digital Media in the Diasporic Transnationalism Context: The Case of International Migrants in Japan
Index