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Shojo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan

Shojo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan

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Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shojo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shojo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shojo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shojo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century—discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology—this volume shifts the focus to shojo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shojo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape.

Table of 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).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030014841
  • Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan
  • ISBN-10: 3030014843
  • Publisher Date: 06 Mar 2019
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 397
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 148 mm


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