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Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) | 
| Author: Anne Allison
Creator: Gary Cross
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Sales Rank: 174969
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 356
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0520245652
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.720952
EAN: 9780520245655
ASIN: 0520245652
Publication Date: June 30, 2006
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Product Description
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods today while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved. Arguing that part of the appeal of such dream worlds is the polymorphous perversity with which they scramble identity and character, the author traces the postindustrial milieux from which such fantasies have arisen in postwar Japan and been popularly received in the United States.
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