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This text examines the rise and fall of Japan's mammoth comic industry since the 1960s. In her history of the manga industry, Sharon Kinsella documents the structure and history of manga, probes into its related subculture and the anti-nerd "otaku" panic, and examines the difficult and fascinating relationship between the artists and editors who create manga. In the process, she argues that Japanese comics have shifted from being a lower-class medium for marginal citizens to becoming a novel form of official communication, recently embraced by big business and national institutions. This ascent of manga through various layers of post-war society reflects the wider transformation of politics and social organization in Japan during the last years of the 20th century.
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A detailed analysis of this pop-cultural phenomenon
This book looks at the rise and fall of Japan's mammoth comic industry since the 1960s. In this stimulating and refreshing work, Kinsella documents the structure and history of the manga industry, probes into its related subculture and the anti-nerd otaku panic, and examines the difficult and fascinating relationship between the artists and editors who create manga. In the process, she argues that Japanese comics have shifted from being a lower class medium for marginal citizens to become a novel form of official communication, recently embraced by big businesses and national institutions. This ascent of manga through various levels of postwar society reflects the wider transformation of politics and social organisation in Japan during the last years of the twentieth century.
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This book looks at the rise and fall of Japan's mammoth comic industry since the 1960s. In this stimulating and refreshing work, Kinsella documents the structure and history of the manga industry, probes into its related subculture and the anti-nerd otaku panic, and examines the difficult and fascinating relationship between the artists and editors who create manga. In the process, she argues that Japanese comics have shifted from being a lower class medium for marginal citizens to become a novel form of official communication, recently embraced by big businesses and national institutions. This ascent of manga through various levels of postwar society reflects the wider transformation of politics and social organisation in Japan during the last years of the twentieth century.
Topics covered include: - political aspects of the major genres of manga - anti-manga movements and censorship - the rise of amateur manga subculture in the late 1980s - the assimilation of manga into National culture - neo-conservative political adult manga in the 1990s - change in the intellectual relationship between manga artists and publishing company editors
Contents: Introduction; A Short History of Manga; The Manga Production Cycle; Adult Manga and the Regeneration of National Culture; Amateur Manga Subculture and the otaku panic; The Movement Against Manga; Creative Editors and Unusable Artists; Conclusion: The Source of Intellectual Power in a Late Twentieth-Century Society.
Sharon Kinsella researches emergent cultural and social trends in Japan at the University of Cambridge.
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- PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0824823176
- ISBN 13 9780824823177
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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