Sharon Kinsella

Adult Manga

Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors.

Produktdetails

• ConsumAsian Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780700710041
• ISBN-10: 0700710043
• Artikelnr.: 23066325

Autorenporträt

Kinsella, Sharon

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 A Short History of Manga
Chapter 2 The Manga Production Cycle
Chapter 3 Adult Manga and the Regeneration of National Culture
Chapter 4 Amateur Manga Subculture and the OtakuPanic
Chapter 5 The Movement Against Manga
Chapter 6 Creative Editors and Unusable Artists
Chapter 7 Conclusion: The Source of Intellectual Power in a Late Twentieth-Century Society

Rezensionen

'an analysis of the rise and fall of the mammoth manga industry since the 1960s and a study of the changing attitudes about manga.' - Japan Quarterly