| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 161 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: representations of goddesses in Japanese audiovisual culture: a new concept / Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano -- Kannon-sama and the spirit of compassion in Japanese cinema / Linda C. Ehrlich -- Suffering and deification: the goddess in Night drum / Sybil A. Thornton -- The profound desire of the goddess: sexuality and politics in the insect woman / Irene González-López -- Anime goddesses and their Hollywood transformations / Dolores P. Martinez -- Deviant attitudes, lost names and the ether: goddesses in contemporary Japanese audiovisuals / José Montaño -- The humanization of the goddess: Isao Takahata's Princess Kaguya / Laura Montero -- Goddesses in Japanese videogames: tradition, gameplay, gender, and power / Víctor Navarro-Remesal -- Ghostly goddesses in in Japanese cinema / Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano |
| Summary |
This collection of essays analyzes the audiovisual representation of Goddesses in Japanese popular culture. It proposes a dialectics of the different conceptions of the feminine as taken up in Japanese film, television, and video games |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2018) |
| Subject |
Goddesses in mass media.
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Goddesses, Japanese.
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Mass media -- Japan
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Goddesses in mass media.
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Goddesses, Japanese.
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Mass media.
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Japan.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Torres Hortelano, Lorenzo J., 1970- editor.
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| LC no. |
2017059746 |
| ISBN |
9781498570152 |
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1498570151 |
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