Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

Azuma, Hiroki

ISBN 10: 0816653518 / ISBN 13: 9780816653515

Edité par University of Minnesota Press, 2009

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Synopsis :

In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on by mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into thecharacteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.

À propos des auteurs:

Hiroki Azuma is codirector of the Academy of Humanities in the Center for the Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A leading cultural critic in Japan, he is the author of seven books, including Ontological, Postal, which won the 2000 Suntory Literary Prize.

Jonathan E. Abel is assistant professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Otaku: Japan's Database Animals
Éditeur : University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition : 2009
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket