Table of Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp xiii-xxviii

Part 1 - Reimagining History

pp 1-2

1 - Imagining Alternative Pasts: Imperial Nostalgia on Japanese Television

pp 3-16

2 - Truth and Limitations: Japanese Media and Disasters

pp 17-31

3 - Solace or Criticism? The Representation of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Television Dramas and Films

pp 32-44

Part 2 - Transitions and Transcultural Flows

pp 45-46

4 - Red-Light Bases (1953): A Cross-Temporal Contact Zone

pp 47-61

5 - Creating the Youth Star System in Japan: Transnational and Transmedia Phenomena

pp 62-77

6 - Film and Television: Looking Beyond a Historic Rivalry

pp 78-89

7 - Remaking Revenge: Transnational Television Drama Flows and the Remaking of the Korean Drama Mawang in Japan

pp 90-104

Part 3 - Franchises and Formats

pp 105-106

8 - Media Mix: Theorizing and Historicizing Japanese Franchising

pp 107-123

9 - Nihilistamina: Gloomy Heroisms in Contemporary Anime

pp 124-139

10 - A Television Flagship Sailing the Currents of a Changing Media World: NHK’s Morning Drama (asadora) in the 21st Century

pp 140-154

Part 4 - Gender and Media

pp 155-156

11 - Japanese Popular Fiction: Constraint, Violence and Freedom in Kirino Natsuo’s Out

pp 157-170

12 - Intersections of Difference: Sex, Gender and Disability in Japanese Visual Media

pp 171-185

13 - Marketing Men (,) Silencing Men: The Sapporo Beer-Mifune Campaign and Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Advertising

pp 186-200

14 - Japanese Men’s Magazines: (Re)producing Hybrid Masculinities

pp 201-214

Part 5 - Audiences and Users

pp 215-216

15 - Japanese Audiences, and Japanese Audience Studies

pp 217-230

16 - The Serious Business of Song: Karaoke as Discipline and Industry in Japan

pp 231-243

17 - Studying Digital Media in the Diasporic Transnationalism Context: The Case of International Migrants in Japan

pp 244-260

Index

pp 261-268