Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Japan and Television at the Century’s Turn 1
5. One. Intimate Televisuality. Television Dramas and the Tarento in Postwar Japan 29
6. Two. Imaged Away. Agency and Fetishism in Trendy Drama Production and Reception 59
7. Three. Dream labor in the dream factory. Capital and Authorship in Drama Production 91
8. Four. What’s love got to do with it? Love Dramas and Branded Selves 117
9. Five. Labor fantasies in recessionary japan Employment as Lifestyle in Workplace Dramas of the 1990s 147
10. Six. Private globalization Bootleggers, Fansubbers, and the Transnational Circulation of J-dorama 177
11. Epilogue. Image commodity, value, affect 201
12. Notes 211
13. References 239
14. Index 253