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Media Theory in Japan
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Edited by:
Marc Steinberg
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretical and conceptual work on media for the first time, challenging media theory's Eurocentric formation and perspective and redefining its location and practice.
Author / Editor information
Marc Steinberg is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University and the author of Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan.
Alexander Zahlten is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
Reviews
“Marc Steinberg and Alexander Zahlten cleverly edited this collection of essays, and it will likely become an important reference for critical re-examination of media studies in Japan and for reconsidering this field in the West, which means a reconstruction of the field of media studies.”
-- Shin Mizukoshi Designing Media Ecology
“A groundbreaking collection. . . . The diverse range of rigorous and engaging essays make the collection as a whole essential reading for an extensive range of audiences in media studies, Japan studies, and humanities-based area studies more broadly.”
-- Franz Prichard Pacific Affairs
“This groundbreaking collection is a welcome contribution to recent writing that focuses on Japan not only as an object of study but as a location of theory. Media Theory in Japan is a valuable start to necessary cultural commutation, a kind of atlas of thinking on media in Japan that only makes me wish for more pages.”
-- Michael Raine Critical Inquiry
"The question of how to recognize the complexity of new media at the scale which it intervenes in our collective consciousness and everyday life is one that Media Theory in Japan leaves its readers to grapple with on their own. . . . What this provocative set of essays ultimately points toward is a future media studies, both in and of Japan, where theory and method effectively collaborate in the construction of its evolving tower of babel."
-- Hoyt Long Journal of Japanese Studies
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I . COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
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Early Theories of Television in Japan Aaron Gerow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Tange Lab and Cybernetics Yuriko Furuhata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Theorizing Media in Japan’s Lost Decades Marilyn Ivy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Actionable Theory and Advertising Industries Marc Steinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Marketing of Mediatic Ambience in Japan Tomiko Yoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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(Non)Media Theory as Romantic Performance Alexander Zahlten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Nancy Seki’s TV Criticism and the Media Space of the 1980s and 1990s Ryoko Misono Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Obscenity and Modularity in Rokudenashiko’s Media Activism Anne Mcknight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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On Nakai Masakazu’s Concept of “Mediation” Akihiro Kitada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Kyōto School as “Media Philosophy” Fabian Schäfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Keisuke Kitano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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A History—and the Case for Media Studies as (Postcultural) Anthropology Tom Looser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 9, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780822373292
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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440
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18 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780822373292
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
