Television and the ama: The continuing search for a real Japan in NHK's morning drama Amachan. Issue 2 (1st August 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Television and the ama: The continuing search for a real Japan in NHK's morning drama Amachan. Issue 2 (1st August 2019)
- Main Title:
- Television and the ama: The continuing search for a real Japan in NHK's morning drama Amachan
- Authors:
- Martinez, Dolores P.
- Abstract:
- This article analyses NHK's 2013 hit morning drama (asadora) Amachan, exploring the subject of surviving through adversity as not just a common thread that it shares with almost all the asadora produced since 1961 but also as a theme analogous to the story of post-war Japan. Intimacy and connectivity, as well, are seen as key to understanding this series about a young girl learning to be a diver (ama). I argue that these strands are interwoven to depict a post-bubble and post-3/11 Japan in which a positive attitude and a willingness to learn from rural, traditional, values are seen as leading to happiness and success.
- Is Part Of:
- East Asian journal of popular culture. Volume 5:Issue 2(2019)
- Journal:
- East Asian journal of popular culture
- Issue:
- Volume 5:Issue 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 5, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0005-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 145
- Page End:
- 158
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-01
- Subjects:
- Popular culture -- East Asia -- Periodicals
306.09505 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal, id=238/view, page=0/ ↗
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1386/eapc_00005_1 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2051-7092
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- Legaldeposit
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