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Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals by Azuma, Hiroki
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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- 9780816653522
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816653526
ISBN-13
9780816653522
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71686033
Product Key Features
Book Title
Otaku : Japan's Database Animals
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, Media Studies, Asia / Japan, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-040819
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
306/.10952
Synopsis
A publishing event--the highly influential best seller in Japan translated into English In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku . When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on by mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan's leading public intellectuals, otaku culture mirrors the transformations of postwar Japanese society and the nature of human behavior in the postmodern era. He traces otaku's ascendancy to the distorted conditions created in Japan by the country's phenomenal postwar modernization, its inability to come to terms with its defeat in the Second World War, and America's subsequent cultural invasion. More broadly, Azuma argues that the consumption behavior of otaku is representative of the postmodern consumption of culture in general, which sacrifices the search for greater significance to almost animalistic instant gratification. In this context, culture becomes simply a database of plots and characters and its consumers mere "database animals." A vital non-Western intervention in postmodern culture and theory, Otaku is also an appealing and perceptive account of Japanese popular culture., In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. Hiroki Azuma's 'Otaku' offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture., In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on by mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into thecharacteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.
LC Classification Number
HN723.5.A9513 2009
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