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Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination
- Title
- Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination / Anne Allison ; foreword by Gary Cross.
- Author
- Allison, Anne, 1950-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 332 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Asia--local studies/global themes ; 13
- Subjects
- Animated films > Japan
- Video games > Japan
- Consumer goods > Japan
- Philosophy, Japanese
- Japan > Social life and customs
- Biens de consommation > Japon
- Jeux vidéo > Japon
- Dessins animés > Japon
- Toys > Japan > Marketing
- Japon > Mœurs et coutumes
- Jouets > Japon > Commercialisation
- Jeux > Japon
- Toy industry > Japan
- Jouets > Industrie > Japon
- Philosophie japonaise
- Games > Japan
- Note
- "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [i].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.
- Contents
- Enchanted commodities -- From ashes to cyborgs : the era of reconstruction (1945-1960) -- Millennial Japan : intimate alienation and new age intimacies -- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : the first crossover superheroes -- Fierce flesh : sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon -- Tamagotchi : the prosthetics of presence -- Pokémon : getting monsters and communicating capitalism -- "Gotta catch 'em all" : the Pokémonization of America (and the world).
- Call Number
- JFE 07-2716
- ISBN
- 0520221486 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520221482 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520245652 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780520245655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005025770
- OCLC
- 61479551
- Author
- Allison, Anne, 1950-
- Title
- Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination / Anne Allison ; foreword by Gary Cross.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Series
- Asia--local studies/global themes ; 13
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-2716