| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Series |
East Asian popular culture
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East Asian popular culture (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Open wounds: situating the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan -- The girls that never end: the infinite seduction of Tomie and Ring -- Xenogenesis: monstrous mothers and evolutionary horrors in contemporary Japanese science fiction -- Faces of horror, dances of death: female revenants and suburban hauntings in new millennial Japanese horror films -- Corrupted innocence, sacred violence, and gynoid becomings: the monstrous-feminine on the gaming scene. |
| Summary |
"This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shōjo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Women in popular culture -- Japan.
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Monsters -- Japan.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Monsters. |
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Women in popular culture. |
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Japan. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dumas, Raechel. Monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japanese popular culture. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 3319924648 9783319924649 (OCoLC)1032720681 |
| ISBN |
9783319924656 (electronic bk.) |
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3319924656 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319924649 |
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3319924648 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-92465-6 |
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