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Summary:

"This ambitious work provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded study of the production, circulation, and reception of Japanese popular culture in Asia. While many studies typically employ an interactive approach that focuses on the "meaning" of popular culture from an anthropological or cultural studies point of view, Regionalizing Culture emphasizes that the consumption side and contextual meaning of popular culture are not the only salient factors in accounting for its proliferation. The production side and organizational aspects are also important. In addition to presenting individual case studies, the book offers a big-picture view of the dramatic changes that have taken place in popular culture production and circulation in Asia over the past two decades. The author has gleaned information from primary sources in Japanese, English, and other languages; research visits to Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Seoul; as well as insights of people with firsthand knowledge from within the cultural industries. From this broad range of source, he develops an integrative political economic approach to popular culture. Regionalizing Culture offers a dialectical look at the organization of cultural production, primarily at the structure and control of cultural industries, interconnections between companies and production networks, and relations between the business sector and the state. It traces the rise of Japan as a popular culture powerhouse and the expansion of its cultural industries into Asian markets. It looks as well at the creation of markets for Japanese cultural commodities since the late 1980s, the industrial and normative impact that Japanese cultural industries have on the structure of the local cultural industries, and the wider implications these processes have for the Asian region."--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

• The political economy of popular culture
• Popular culture and the East Asian region
• Japan's popular culture powerhouse
• The creation of a regional market
• Japan's regional model
• Conclusion: Japanese popular culture and the making of East Asia.

Author/Creator:

Otmazgin, Nissim , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Regionalizing culture: the political economy of Japanese popular culture in Asia [by Otmazgin, N.]

Subjects:

Popular culture — Economic aspects — Japan

Popular culture — Economic aspects — East Asia

Popular culture — Economic aspects — Southeast Asia

Cultural industries — Japan

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-220) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HD9999.C9473 J34 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780824839062 (electronic bk.)
0824839064 (electronic bk.)
9780824836948 [Invalid]
0824836944 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1014414043

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3413584 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11390737