Handbook of Japanese popular culture / edited by Richard Gid Powers and Hidetoshi Katō ; associate editor, Bruce Stronach

Published: New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.
Physical Description: xviii, 350 pages ; 25 cm
Additional Creators: Powers, Richard Gid, 1944-, Katō, Hidetoshi, 1930-, and Stronach, Bruce

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Contents

Introduction / Richard Gid Powers -- Some thoughts on Japanese popular culture / Hidetoshi Kato -- Lifestyles and popular culture in urban Japan / Theodore C. Bestor -- Popular architecture / Renato A. Pirotta -- Japanese new religions / H. Byron Earhart -- Popular performing arts : manzai and rakugo / Muneo Jay Yoshikawa / Popular film / Keiko I. McDonald -- Japanese television / Bruce Stronach -- Sports / William R. May -- Popular music / Linda Fujie -- Japanese comics / John A. Lent -- Science fiction / Elizabeth Anne Hull and Mark Siegel -- Japanese mystery literature / Kazuo Yoshida -- Japanese popular culture reconsidered / Hidetoshi Kato.

Subject(s)

Popular culture—Japan
Japan—Civilization—1945-

Other Subject(s)

Japanese popular culture

ISBN

0313239223 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
9780313239229 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographies and index.

Endowment Note

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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