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UNINA9910823855403321 |
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Vernon James <1965-> |
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Distant strangers : how Britain became modern / / James Vernon |
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Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Berkeley Series in British Studies ; ; 9 |
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Social change - Great Britain - History |
Civilization, Modern |
Civilization, Modern - British influences |
Great Britain Civilization |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. What Is Modernity? -- 2. A Society of Strangers -- 3. Governing Strangers -- 4. Associating with Strangers -- 5. An Economy of Strangers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern social condition emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century. Rapid and sustained population growth, combined with increasing mobility of people over greater distances and concentrations of people in cities, created a society of strangers. Vernon explores how individuals in modern societies adapted to live among strangers by forging more abstract and anonymous economic, social, and political relations, as well as by reanimating the local and the personal. |
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UNINA9910484279803321 |
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Hemmann Kathryn |
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Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze / / by Kathryn Hemmann |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations |
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East Asian Popular Culture, , 2634-5943 |
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Ethnology - Asia |
Culture |
Sex |
Popular culture |
Communication |
Asian Culture |
Gender Studies |
Popular Culture |
Media and Communication |
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1. Introduction: Interrogating the Text from the Wrong Perspective -- 2. Short Skirts, Superpowers, and the Evolution of the Beautiful Fighting Girl -- 3. The Maiden and the Witch: CLAMP's Subversion of Female Character Tropes -- 4. Queering the Media Mix: The Female Gaze in Japanese Fancomics -- 5. Beautiful War Games: Transfiguring Genders in Video Game Fancomics -- 6. Link Is Not Silent: Queer Disability Positivity in Fan Readings of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild -- 7. The Cultural Cross-Pollination of Shōjo Manga. |
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The female gaze is used by writers and readers to examine narratives from a perspective that sees women as subjects instead of objects, and the application of a female gaze to male-dominated discourses can open new avenues of interpretation. This book explores how female |
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manga artists have encouraged the female gaze within their work and how female readers have challenged the male gaze pervasive in many forms of popular media. Each of the chapters offers a close reading of influential manga and fancomics to illustrate the female gaze as a mode of resistant reading and creative empowerment. By employing a female gaze, professional and amateur creators are able to shape and interpret texts in a manner that emphasizes the role of female characters while challenging and reconfiguring gendered themes and issues. Kathryn Hemmann received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of numerous essays on Japanese fiction, graphic novels, and video games. They also run the blog Contemporary Japanese Literature (japaneselit.net), which features reviews of fiction in translation and posts on gender, society, and popular culture. |
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