Shojo across media : exploring 'girl' practices in contemporary Japan /: exploring 'girl' practices in contemporary Japan. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jaqueline Berndt, Kazumi Nagaike, Fusami Ogi.
• Editors: Berndt, Jaqueline, 1963-; Nagaike, Kazumi; Ōgi, Fusami
• Contents: Part I: Shōjo Manga 1. Romance of the Taishō School Girl in Shōjo Manga: Here Comes Miss Modern (Alisa Freedman) 2. Redefining Shōjo and Shōnen Manga through Language Patterns (Giancarla Unser-Schutz) 3. Shōjo Manga Beyond Shōjo Manga: The 'Female Mode of Address' in Kabukumon (Olga Antononoka) Part II: Shōjo beyond Manga 4. Practicing Shōjo in Japanese New Media and Cyberculture: Analyses of the Cell Phone Novel and Dream Novel (Kazumi Nagaike and Raymond Langley) 5. The Shōjo in the Rōjo: Enchi Fumiko's Representation of the Rōjo Who Refused to Grow Old (Sohyun Chun) 6. Mediating Otome in the Discourse of War Memory: Complexity of Memory-Making through Postwar Japanese War Films (Kaori Yoshida) 7. Shōjo in Anime: Beyond the Object of Men's Desire(Akiko Sugawa-Shimada) Part III: Shōjo Performances 8. A Dream Dress for Girls: Milk, Fashion and Shōjo Identity (Masafumi Monden) 9. Sakura ga meijiru—Unlocking the Shōjo Wardrobe: Cosplay, Manga, 2.5D Space(Emerald L. King) 10. Multilayered Performers: The Takarazuka Musical Revue as Media (Sonoko Azuma, Translated by Raymond Langley and Nick Hall) 11. Sounds and Sighs: 'Voice Porn' for Women (Minori Ishida, Translated by Nick Hall) Part IV: Shōjo Fans 12. From Shōjo to Bangya(ru): Women and Visual Kei (Adrienne Johnson) 13. Shōjo Fantasies of Inhabiting Cool Japan: Reimagining Fukuoka Through Shōjo and Otome Ideals with Cosplay Tourism(Craig Norris) 14. Seeking an Alternative: 'Male' Shōjo Fans since the 1970s (Patrick W. Galbraith).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 305.230820952; Girls -- Japan; Girls in mass media
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030014858
• Related ISBNs: 9783030014841
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