New PDF release: Popular Culture in Asia: Memory, City, Celebrity

By Lorna Fitzsimmons, John A. Lent

ISBN-10: 1137270209

ISBN-13: 9781137270207

ISBN-10: 1349444308

ISBN-13: 9781349444304

Pop culture in Asia  consists reviews of movie, song, structure, tv, and computer-mediated conversation in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, addressing 3 subject matters: city modernities; modernity, star, and fan tradition; and reminiscence and modernity.

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2. Translated by Karine Chesneau, Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle, and Chiharu Tanaka. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1997. Schilling, Mark. ” In Kon Ichikawa, edited by James Quandt, 409–27. Toronto: Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2001. Seaton, Philip A. Japan’s Contested War Memories: The “Memory Rifts” in Historical Consciousness of World War II. London: Routledge, 2007. Seraphim, Franziska. ” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 9, n. 2–3 (2008): 203–24. ———. War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005.

55. Ichikawa, in Kon Ichikawa Interview. 56. Ibid. 57. Richie, “The Several Sides,” 53. 58. See Eric Cazdyn, “The Ends of Adaptation: Kon Ichikawa and the Politics of Cinematization,” in Kon Ichikawa, ed. James Quandt (Toronto, ON: Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2001), 221–33. 59. McDonald also perceives the Buddhist theme, Cinema East, 89. 60. Ichikawa Kon, “Blown by the Wind,” in Kon Ichikawa, ed. James Quandt (Toronto, ON: Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2001), 15. 61.

Minear recounts, “Takeyama had read of a soldier, a young music teacher, who trained his men to sing; in turn they protected him with their bodies when bullets flew. 15 Among the soldiers, the protagonist, Mizushima, is an unpretentious corporal with no musical training, but his talent is so great that the effects of his harp-playing have counterintuitive16 connotations. 17 In the novel, the harp contributes to the protagonist’s implicit characterization as a shamanic figure redolent, in some respects, of the bodhisattva Jiz¯ o18 —but not without traces of political resistance.

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