| Description |
xxix, 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN |
9780816653515 hardback |
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0816653518 hardback |
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9780816653522 paperback |
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0816653526 paperback |
| Note |
Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001). |
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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. |
| Library Class |
Sociology C823.5
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| Subject |
Subculture -- Japan.
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Popular culture -- Japan.
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Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
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| Other Author |
Abel, Jonathan E., 1971- translator.
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Kono, Shion, translator.
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