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Press, 2009, editor of east european cinemas afi film readers, routledge, 2005, co editor of transnational feminism in film and media palgrave, 2007, a special issue of the european journal of cultural studies on media globalization and postsocialist identities may 2009, and a special issue of feminist. This handbook provides a cuttingedge and comprehensive survey of s. Who consumes what other and how the market mediates these relationships is koichi iwabuchi s preoccupation in his essay nostalgia for a different asian modernity. The routledge handbook of japanese culture and society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twentyfirst century. Duplicate issn to jainism and society xhtmllive archive, feb 05, 2004 initially developed in japan by nintendo as a computer game, pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Olivia khoo is a senior lecturer in film and screen studies at monash university. Koichi iwabuchi teaches media and cultural studies at the school of. Routledge handbook of east asian popular culture 1st. This illustrated the fact that the iconic fashion was highly valued by the chief editor.
Iwabuchi has conducted extensive interviews with producers, promoters, and consumers of popular culture in japan and east asia. Its focus on japan and asia in the context of debates about. Transnationalism discourses on japan in the global cultural flow. Dewesternisation, interasian referencing and beyond koichi. Transnational and dialogic approaches has 14 entries in the series.
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