From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods today while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved. Arguing that part of the appeal of such dream worlds is the polymorphous perversity with which they scramble identity and character, the author traces the postindustrial milieux from which such fantasies have arisen in postwar Japan and been popularly received in the United States.
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"Allison manages to present these play commodities in a way that says something fresh about Japan, about the hoary notion of globalization, and about contemporary intersections of capitalism, culture, and pleasure. Millennial Monsters is clearly an important book - important because the subject is of such broad interest, and because Allison's analytic interpretation is clear, powerful, and provocative." - William Kelley, Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University"
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Anne Allison is Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and author of Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (UC Press, 2000) and Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994).
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millennial monsters, tin jeeps, intimate alienation, global kids, pocket monsters, toy merchandise, postindustrial times, girl heroes, millennial capitalism, virtual pets, global imagination, team warriors, criminal youth, play products, cute characters, character merchandise, insect collecting, play industry, monster ball, fashion action, toy industry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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millennial monsters, tin jeeps, intimate alienation, global kids, pocket monsters, toy merchandise, postindustrial times, girl heroes, millennial capitalism, virtual pets, global imagination, team warriors, criminal youth, play products, cute characters, character merchandise, insect collecting, play industry, monster ball, fashion action, toy industry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Sailor Moon, Power Rangers, Game Boy, Tetsuwan Atomu, New Age, New York, Warner Brothers, Red Ranger, Bandai America, Professor Oak, Spirited Away, Astro Boy, Hello Kitty, Hong Kong, Company Ltd, Courtesy of Shogakukan Production, Red Puncher, Aum Shinrikyo, Sailor Scouts, Spell of the Unknown, Asahi Shinbun, Fox Network, King Kong, Kubo Masakazu New!
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- Astro Boy (Volume 3) by Osamu Tezuka on 4 pages
- Sailor Moon, Vol. 2 by Naoko Takeuchi on page 131, page 150, and page 152
- Spirited Away, Vol. 2 by Hayao Miyazaki on page 8, page 9, and Back Matter
- Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality (Basic Books Classics) by Sigmund Freud in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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