Lukács / Gabriella Lukacs Scripted Affects, Branded Selves

Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9323-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten

An exploration of Japans television culture focused on primetime serials called trendy dramas, popular primetime serials featuring. well-heeled young sophisticates enjoying consumer-oriented lifestyles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lukács, Gabriella

Gabriella Lukacs, Lukacs

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Japan and Television at the Century's Turn

1. Intimate Televisuality: Television Dramas and the Tarento in Postwar Japan

2. Imaged Away: Agency and Fetishism in Trendy Drama Production and Reception

3. Dream Labor in the Dream Factory: Capital and Authorship in Drama Production

4. What's Love Got to Do with It? Love Dramas and Branded Selves

5. Labor Fantasies in Recessionary Japan: Employment as Lifestyle in Workplace Dramas of the 1990s

6. Private Globalization: Bootleggers, Fansubbers, and the Transnational Circulation of J-dorama

Epilogue. Image Commodity, Value, Affect

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriella Lukács is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.