Overview
- Looks at the framing of death and related themes through new popular culture forms such as manga, anime and computer games and their ontologies
- Conducts a philosophical investigation of the connections between traditional Japanese art and literature’s depictions of the boundary between life and death, and newly emerging reinterpretations of those depictions in contemporary Japanese media products
- Connects the theme of death with contextual concerns on individualism, collectivism and the construction of new forms of community in contemporary Japan
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Book Title: Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture
Authors: Miguel Cesar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50880-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50879-1Published: 28 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50882-1Published: 28 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50880-7Published: 27 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 138
Topics: Asian Culture, Popular Culture , Comics Studies