思想・芸術Ⅱ(PEAK)

Week1: Introduction Week2: History of academic discussions on mass culture Strinati, D. (2004). Mass culture and popular culture in An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (2nd ed.). Routledge. Pp. 1-45. https://doi.org/***** Week3: Popular culture in the Japanese social context Yoshio Sugimoto. 2014. Popular Culture and Everyday Life. In An Introduction to Japanese Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.257-304. Week4: Nationalism and popular culture Koichi Iwabuchi. 2002. “Soft” nationalism and narcissism: Japanese popular culture goes global. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 447-469. Week5: Gendered genre of manga Angela Drummond-Mathews. 2010. What Boys Will Be: A Study of Shōnen Manga. In Toni Johnson-Woods (ed) MANGA: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives. New York: Continum. 62-75. Week 6: Queer Reading Manga: James Welker (2006) “Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: “Boys’ Love” as Girls’ Love in Sho jo Manga”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 841-870. Week 7: Disability representation in Japanese TV drama Arran Stibbe (2004) Disability, gender and power in Japanese television drama, Japan Forum, 16:1, 21-36, DOI: 10.1080/*****000189311 Week 8: Kawaii culture and neoliberalism Iseri, Makiko. (2015) “Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii in Japanese Girls’ Culture”. In: Nally C., Smith A. (eds) Twenty-first Century Feminism. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 140-163. Week 9: Social discourses and pathologizing “Otaku (geeks)” Patrick W. Galbraith. 2019. “Otaku” Research and Reality Problems. In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. Duke University Press, pp.49-75. Week 10: Masculinity and Japaneseness in video games Lucy Glasspool. 2016. Making Masculinity: Articulations of Gender and Japaneseness in Japanese RPGs and Machinima. In Alexis Pulos & S. Austin Lee. Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play: Video Games in East Asia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.99-126. Week 11: “Idol” culture in Japan Kazumi Nagaike 2016. Johnny’s Idols as Icons: Female Desires to Fantasize and Consume Male Idol Images. In Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin (eds) Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture. pp. 97-112. Week 12: Obscenity and institutional problems Kirsten Cather. 2017. Must we burn eromanga?: Trying obscenity in the courtroom and in the classroom. In Mark McLelland, The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, legal, and cultural challenges to Japanese popular culture, London: Routledge, pp. 90-93. Week 13: Transnational Queer Culture and Gaze towards Japan/Asia (1): Eguchi, S., & Kimura, K. (2020). Racialized im/possibilities: Intersectional queer-of-color critique on Japaneseness in Netflix’s Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 14(3), 221–239. https://doi.org/***** Week 14: Transnational Queer Culture and Gaze towards Japan/Asia (2): Samantha Aburime, (2024) The influence of transphobia, homonationalism and anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, https://doi.org/*****

This course requires students - to make at least one presentation (15-20 minutes) summarizing a reading assignment in English to the class - to actively participate in class - submitting a final term paper (1500-2000 words).

Class attendance and participation: 20% Class Presentation: 30% Term’s essay: 50%

Students must read a reading assignment in advance and actively participate in class discussions.