Research Catalog

Title

Asian popular culture : new, hybrid, and alternate media / edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland. : Lexington Books, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957-
• Lent, John A.
• Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957

Description

xiii, 179 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Asia > Social life and customs > 21st cenury
• Social change > Asia
• Simulation games > Social aspects > Asia
• Social media > Asia
• Asia > Social life and customs > 21st century
• Popular culture > Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Weiqi legends, then and now: cultural paradigms in the game of go / Marc L. Moskowitz -- 2. Locating play: the situated localities of online and handheld gaming in East Asia / Dean Chan -- 3. Regionalism in the era of neo-nationalism: Japanese landscape in the background art of games and anime from the late-1990s to present / Kumiko Saito -- 4. Otaku evolution: changing views of the fan-boy in Kon Satoshi's Perfect blue and paprika / Joseph Christopher Schaub -- 5. Breaking records: media, censorship, and the folk song movement of Japan's 1960s / James Dorsey -- 6. Mad-cow disease and alternative Youtube videos: Brechtian politics of aesthetics in grassroots media spectacles, voluntary mobilization, and collective governance from Korea's candlelight movements / Gooyong Kim -- 7. Reaching beyond the manga: a samurai to the ends of the world and the formation of national identity / Michael Wert -- 8. Zen dog: Lian Hearn's hybrid Otori pentalogy / Sheng-mei Ma.

ISBN

• 9780739179611 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739179616 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739179628 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
• 0739179624 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012040482

OCLC

• 811600958
• SCSB-10229095

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library