Edition |
[English ed.]. |
Description |
xxix, 144 p. : ill. |
Note |
"Originally published in Japanese as Dobutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso. |
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Translated from the Japanese. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index. |
Contents |
Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Subculture -- Japan.
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Popular culture -- Japan.
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Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9780816653515 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0816653518 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780816653522 (pb : alk. paper) |
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0816653526 (pb : alk. paper) |
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