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Tag Archives: media studies
Book Announcement: The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan
The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan Paul Roquet Although virtual reality promises to immerse a person in another world, its true power lies in its ability to sever a person’s spatial situatedness in this one. This is especially clear … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, digital technologies, Japan, Japanese culture, media, media studies, militarism, soiety, techno realities, technology, virtual reality, VR
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Book Announcement: The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji
The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji Jonathan E. Abel Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media studies overlap and are bound together A synthetic history of new media reception in modern … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, contemporary Japan, history, Japan, media studies, modern Japan, new media
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Book Announcement: Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia
Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia Edited by James Welker The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, BL, book announcement, books, boys' love, comics, east asia, fan studies, Japan, manga, media, media studies, queer studies, South Asia, Southeast Asia
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Book Announcement: Japan’s Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global: Content, Practice and Theory
Japan’s Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global: Content, Practice and Theory Martin Roth, Hiroshi Yoshida and Martin Picard (Eds.) This collection features a wide range of inquiries into Japan’s contemporary media culture, situating popular media content and its related … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, global, Japan, local, media, media culture, media studies, popular culture, popular media
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Resource: Japanese Animated Film Classics
There’s no doubt that Japanese animation is now everywhere, from popular media we consume on Netflix to splashing across the big screen. But where did animated film begin? What kind of works were created? One great resource for exploring the … Continue reading
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Tagged film, film studies, Japanese film, media, media studies, movies
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Book Announcement: Eight Dogs, or “Hakkenden” Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest
Eight Dogs, or “Hakkenden” Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest by Kyokutei Bakin Translated by Glynne Walley Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Social Trauma, Narrative Memory and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film
Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film David C. Stahl This book provides a comprehensive analysis of major works in Japanese literature and film through the interpretive lens of trauma and PTSD studies. Focusing critical attention … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, media studies, trauma, trauma studies
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Book Announcement: Japanese Culture Through Videogames
Japanese Culture Through Videogames Rachael Hutchinson Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcements, books, Japan, Japanese, media, media culture, media studies, modern Japan, technology, video games
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Job Opening: Film Coordinator, JICC, Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C
Link to full announcement: https://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/employment/film.html PDF Version: https://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/employment/pdf/JICCFilmCoordinator2019.pdf Vacancy Announcement: Film Coordinator The Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC), Embassy of Japan, is seeking a highly motivated, team-oriented individual for the position of Film Coordinator. The main responsibilities of this … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics
Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics Yuko Shibata National, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries all play a role in academic study and nowhere is this more apparent than in traditional humanities scholarship surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, Hiroshima, international relations, Japan, Japanese history, literature, media, media studies, Nagasaki, postwar, postwar Japan, United States, WWII
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