| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9911098478703321 |
|
|
Autore |
Allison Anne <1950-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination / / Anne Allison ; foreword by Gary Cross |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
9786612771927 |
9781282771925 |
1282771922 |
9780520938991 |
0520938992 |
9781601290298 |
1601290292 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (355 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Classificazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Toys - Japan |
Games - Japan |
Animated films - Japan |
Video games - Japan |
Consumer goods - Japan |
Toy industry - Japan |
Toys - Japan - Marketing |
Philosophy, Japanese |
Japan Social life and customs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Enchanted Commodities -- 2. From Ashes To Cyborgs: The Era Of Reconstruction (1945-1960) -- 3. Millennial Japan: Intimate Alienation And New Age Intimacies -- 4. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The First Crossover Superheroes -- 5. Fierce Flesh: Sexy Schoolgirls In The Action Fantasy Of Sailor Moon -- 6. Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics Of Presence -- 7. Pokémon: Getting Monsters And Communicating Capitalism -- 8. "Gotta Catch 'Em All": |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Pokémonization Of America (And The World) -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods today while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved. Arguing that part of the appeal of such dream worlds is the polymorphous perversity with which they scramble identity and character, the author traces the postindustrial milieux from which such fantasies have arisen in postwar Japan and been popularly received in the United States. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9911108632003321 |
|
|
Autore |
Stevenson Robert Louis <1850-1894.> |
|
|
Titolo |
In the south seas / / Robert Louis Stevenson |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Auckland : , : The Floating Press, , 1908 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (444 pages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Authors, Scottish - 19th century |
East and West |
Travelers' writings, American |
Travelers' writings, European |
Oceania Civilization Foreign influences |
Oceania Description and travel |
Oceania Discovery and exploration American |
Oceania Discovery and exploration European |
Oceania History Sources |
Oceania Social life and customs |
Polynesia Description and travel |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Title; Contents; PART I THE MARQUESAS; Chapter I An Island Landfall; Chapter II Making Friends; Chapter III The Maroon; Chapter IV Death; Chapter V Depopulation; Chapter VI Chiefs and Tapus; Chapter VII Hatiheu; Chapter VIII The Port of Entry; Chapter IX The House of Temoana; Chapter X A Portrait and a Story; Chapter XI Long-Pig-A Cannibal High Place; Chapter XII The Story of a Plantation; Chapter XIII Characters; Chapter XIV In a Cannibal Valley; Chapter XV The Two Chiefs of Atuona; PART II THE PAUMOTUS; Chapter I The Dangerous Archipelago-Atolls at a Distance |
Chapter II Fakarava: An Atoll at Hand Chapter III A House to Let in a Low Island; Chapter IV Traits and Sects in the Paumotus; Chapter V A Paumotuan Funeral; Chapter VI Graveyard Stories; PART III THE GILBERTS; Chapter I Butaritari; Chapter II The Four Brothers; Chapter III Around Our House; Chapter IV A Tale of a Tapu; Chapter V A Tale of a Tapu- Continued; Chapter VI The Five Days' Festival; Chapter VII Husband and Wife; PART IV THE GILBERTS- APEMAMA; Chapter I The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader; Chapter II The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town |
Chapter III The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many Women Chapter IV The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace; Chapter V King and Commons; Chapter VI The King of Apemama: Devil-Work; Chapter VII The King of Apemama |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific. In his words: ""For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that I should try the South Seas; and I was not unwilling to visit like a ghost, and be carried like a bale... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |