Television Japan and Globalization: Volume 67 (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) - Softcover

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (editor)|Eva Tsai (editor)|JungBong Choi (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929280599 ISBN 13: 9781929280599

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2010

Synopsis

Television, Japan, and Globalization makes a monumental contribution to the literature of television studies, which has increasingly recognized its problematic focus on US and Western European media, and a compelling intervention in discussions of globalization, through its careful attention to contradictory and complex phenomena on Japanese TV. Case studies include talent and stars, romance, anime, telops, game and talk shows, and live-action nostalgia shows. The book also looks at Japanese television from a political and economic perspective, with attention to Sky TV, production trends, and Fuji TV as an architectural presence in Tokyo. The combination of textual analysis, clear argument, and historical and economic context makes this book ideal for media studies audiences. Its most important contribution may be moving the study of Japanese popular culture beyond the tired truisms about postmodernism and opening up new lines of thinking about television and popular culture within and between nations.

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About the Author

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Associate Professor in Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. He is the author of Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (2000) and Empire of Images and the End of Cinema (2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1929280599
• ISBN 13: 9781929280599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298