03733nam 22006735 450 991048427980332120250610110513.09783030180959303018095610.1007/978-3-030-18095-9(CKB)4100000010770918(MiAaPQ)EBC6154435(DE-He213)978-3-030-18095-9(Perlego)3480302(MiAaPQ)EBC29092979(EXLCZ)99410000001077091820200331d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierManga Cultures and the Female Gaze /by Kathryn Hemmann1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (173 pages) illustrationsEast Asian Popular Culture,2634-5943Print version: Hemmann, Kathryn. Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze. Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, ©2020 9783030180942 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.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 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.East Asian Popular Culture,2634-5943EthnologyAsiaCultureSexPopular cultureCommunicationAsian CultureGender StudiesPopular CultureMedia and CommunicationEthnologyCulture.Sex.Popular culture.Communication.Asian Culture.Gender Studies.Popular Culture.Media and Communication.741.50952306.095Hemmann Kathrynauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1214121MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484279803321Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze2849216UNINA