Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture

From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Ashley Pearson, Thomas Giddens, Kieran Tranter, UK) Giddens, Thomas (St Mary's University College, Twickenham, Australia) Tranter, Kieran (Griffith University

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In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and change, the self, and the technological future. Within these foci, questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of Astro Boy; the property and contract of Pokémon; the ecological justice of Nausicaä; Shinto’s focus on order and balance; and the anxieties of origins in J- horror. This volume brings together a range of global scholars to refl ect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-29
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138300262

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Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPrefaceList of contributors Crime Fighting Robots and Duelling Pocket Monsters: Law and Justice in Japanese Popular CultureAshley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran TranterPART I: Possibilities of Justice The Symptoms of the Just: Psycho-Pass, Judg(e)ment, and the Asymptomatic CommonsDaniel Hourigan Pirates, Giants and the State: Legal Authority in Manga and AnimeJames C. Fisher Traumatic Origins in Hart and RinguPenny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk Justice in the Sea of Corruption: Nausicaä as Ecological JurisprudenceThomas Giddens Masterful Trainers and Villainous Liberators: Law and justice in Pokémon Black and WhiteDale MitchellPART II: The Legal Subject Doing Right in the World with 100,000 Horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Essence, Posthumanity and Techno-humanismKieran Tranter Caught in Couture: Regulating Clothing and the Body in Kill la Kill Rosie Taylor-Harding Holy Trans-Jurisdictional Representations of Justice, Batman!": Globalisation, Persona and Mask in Kuwata’s Batmanga and Morrison’s Batman, IncorporatedTimothy D. PetersPART III: The Power and Problem of the Image ‘Finding the Law’ through Creating and Consuming Gay Manga in Japan: From Heteronormativity to Queer ActivismThomas Baudinette Regulating Counterpublics in Yaoi Online Fan CommunitiesScott Beattie ‘Is Yaoi Illegal?!’: Let’s Get Real about the Potential Criminalisation of Yaoi Hadeel Al-Alosi Constitutional Analysis of Secondary Works in Japan: From Otaku to the WorldYuichiro TsujiPART IV: Specificities of Law and Justice in Everyday Japan ‘The World is Rotten’: Execution and Power in Death Note and the Japanese Capital Punishment SystemAshley Pearson Debts, Family, and Identity after the Collapse of the Bubble: Miyabe Miyuki’s All She Was WorthGiorgio Fabio Colombo Rules and Unruliness in Manga Depictions of Community Police BoxesRichard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki The Image-Characters of Criminal Justice in TokyoPeter D. Rush and Alison YoungIndex