Millennial Monsters

Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, this book explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved.

Autorentext
Anne Allison is Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and author of Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (UC Press, 2000) and Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994).

Klappentext
Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese consumer culture--including manga (comic books), anime (animation), video games, and toys--and questions the make-up of fantasies nand capitalism that have spurred the industry's growth.


Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Foreword

1. Enchanted Commodities
2. From Ashes to Cyborgs: The Era of Reconstruction (1945–1960)
3. Millennial Japan: Intimate Alienation and New Age Intimacies
4. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The First Crossover Superheroes
5. Fierce Flesh: Sexy Schoolgirls in the Action Fantasy of Sailor Moon
6. Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence
7. Pokémon: Getting Monsters and Communicating Capitalism
8. “Gotta Catch ’Em All”: The Pokémonization of America (and the World)

Epilogue
Notes
References
Index

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