Idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture

Spend even a day in a major Japanese city like Tokyo or Osaka and you won't be able to ignore them: 'idols,' or heavily produced and promoted men and womenwho perform across media genres and platforms. They appear in magazines and advertisements, perform on TV and on stage, recorded and live. Though central to the workings and experience of media in Japan, idols have unfortunately had only a marginal place in the scholarship. This collection offers the most complete and compelling account of one of the most fascinating and least understood aspects of Japanese media culture today. It brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who engage the study of media, gender and celebrity. Sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements. INDICE: Forward: Revisiting 'Idology'; H. Aoyagi.Introduction: The Mirror of Idols and Celebrity; P.W.Galbraith. &. J.G.Karlin.PART I: SYSTEMS.The Jimusho System: Understanding the Production Logic of the Japanese Entertainment Industry; W.D.Marx.Megaspectacle and Celebrity Transgression in Japan: The SakaiNoriko Media Scandal; I.Prusa.Through a Looking Glass Darkly: Television Advertising, Idols and the Making of Fan Audiences; J.G.Karlin.PART II: DESIRE.Johnny's Idols as Icon: Female Desires to Fantasize and Consume Male Idol Images;K.Nagaike. From Boys Next Door to Boys' Love: Gender Performance in Japanese Male Idol Media; L.Glasspool.The Homo Cultures of Iconic Personality in Japan:Mishima Yukio and Misora Hibari; J.D.Mackintosh.PART III: DIFFERENCE.Idol as Accidental Activist: Agnes Chan, Feminism and Motherhood in Japan; A.Hambleton.Emotions, Desires and Fantasy: What Idolizing Means for Yon-sama Fans in Japan; Ho Swee Lin.PART IV: IMAGE.Idols: The Image of Desire in Japanese Consumer Capitalism; P.W.Galbraith.The Virtual Idol: Producing and Consuming Digital Femininity; D.Black.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29830-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 31/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido