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Week 15 July 29th Japanese Popular Culture II: Myth & AKB 4

RR: Barthes, Roland. “Myth Today”, Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader . Su Holmes, Sean Redmond , ed. London: SAGE Pub., 2007 , pp.44-48 [click HERE to download] ADDED: Aoyagi Hiroshi, "Foreword: Revisiting 'Idology', & Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin,  "Introduction: The Mirror of Idols and Celebrity ",  in  Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture , edited by Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2012 [click HERE to download] Film For Discussion: AKB48 No Flower Without Rain documentary , Dir. Eiki Takahashi, 2013 [English version available online: http://www.show48.com/documentary-of-akb48-no-flower-without-rain-2013/]

reading for Week 14 July 22nd Japanese Popular Culture I: Cuties and Monsters

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Dear all, congratulations to your presentations today! 1. Brothers, Peter H. “Japan's Nuclear Nightmare: How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla” [click HERE to download] 2.[newly added] Iwabuchi, Koichi. “Taking ‘Japanization’ Seriously: Cultural Globalization Reconsidered”, Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2002.23-50 [ HERE to download] Film for discussion : Godzilla , Dir. Honda Ishiro, 1954 [English dubbed version available online HERE  sorry...it's really bad dubbing...alternatively, you could loan the DVD from me]

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Surveillance and Panopticon [ HERE ] Spectacle, Simulacra & Mass Media I [ CLICK HERE ]   Spectacle, Simulacra & Mass Media II [ CLICK HERE ] password for the download is  the date of the lecture . for instance if the lecture takes place on January 01, 1900 then the password would be 19000101 (eight-digit:yyyymmdd)