| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 294 p.) |
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Godzilla, the evolving monster / Dale Pike -- Reptar: the rugrats meet Godzilla / Jan Susina -- Invasion of the Japanese monsters: a home-front report / Mark I. West -- Hello Kitty in America / Kathy Merlock Jackson -- The allure of anthropomorphism in manga and Animé / Fred Patten -- We all live in a Pokémon world: animated utopia for kids / Cary Eliza -- Pokemon as theater: training the pocket monsters of self and consumerism / Mark Pizzato -- Japanese dominance of the video-game industry and the future of interactive media / Joe Wezorek -- Jet-set kids: mutation/seduction/hybridization / Derek A. Burrill -- Interviews with adolescent Animé fans / Brent Allison -- North America reactions to Yaoi / Antonia Levi -- Paradigm lost: how the rising ubiquity of all things Japanese ruined the national pastime for one American father / Bill Davis -- Two worlds, united by Animé / Elizabeth Flynn -- The cross-cultural appeal of the characters in Manga and Animé / Hiroaki Hatayama -- The censorship of Japanese Animé in America: do American children need to be protected from Dragon Ball? / Rieko Okugara -- Early Japanese animation in the United States: changing Tetsuwan Atomu to Astro Boy / Brian Ruh -- Inu Yasha: the search for the jewel of four souls in America / Nicoloe Farrell -- Folklore and gender inversion in Cardcaptor Sakura / Bill Ellis -- Anima and Animé: environmental perspectives and new frontiers in Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away / Nathalie op de Beeck |
| Summary |
A variety of contributors discuss the impact of such Japanese cultural exports as anime, manga, and electronic/video games and explain why these forms of culture are so popular with many American children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Children -- United States -- Social conditions
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture -- Japan.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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Children -- Social conditions
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Civilization -- Japanese influences
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Popular culture
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Kind
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Pop-Kultur
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Einfluss
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- Japanese influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001978
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Japan
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United States
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Japan
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
West, Mark I
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| LC no. |
2021697495 |
| ISBN |
9780810862494 |
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128249936X |
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9781282499362 |
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9786612499364 |
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6612499362 |
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0810862492 |
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