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Island of Eight Million Smiles
Hiroshi Aoyagi
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Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages, 23ill. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFCA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the "idol," an attractive young actor, male or female, packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited by the entertainment, fashion, cosmetic, and publishing industries to market trendy products. This book offers ethnographic case studies regarding the symbolic qualities of idols and how these qualities relate to the conceptualization of selfhood among adolescents in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia. The author explores how the idol-manufacturing industry absorbs young people into its system of production, molds them into marketable personalities, commercializes their images, and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674017733
SKU
V9780674017733
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About Hiroshi Aoyagi
Hiroshi Aoyagi is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Asia-Japan Research Center, Kokushikan University, Tokyo.
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