From film to television : early theories of television in Japan / Aaron Gerow -- Architecture as atmospheric media : Tange Lab and cybernetics / Yuriko Furuhata -- The media theory and media strategy of Azuma Hiroki, 1997-2003 / Takeshi Kadobayashi -- The intercommunication project : theorizing media in Japan's lost decades / Marilyn Ivy -- McLuhan as prescription drug : actionable theory and advertising industries / Marc Steinberg -- The culture industries and media theory in Japan / Miryam Sas -- Girlscape : the marketing of mediatic ambience in Japan / Tomiko Yoda -- 1980s "Nyū Aca" : (non)media theory as romantic performance / Alexander Zahlten -- Critical media imagination : Nancy Seki's TV criticism and the media space of the 1980s and 1990s / Ryoko Misono -- At the source (code) : obscenity and modularity in Rokudenashiko's media -- Activism / Anne McKnight -- An assault on "meaning" : on Nakai Masakazu's concept of "mediation" / Akihiro Kitada -- Much Ado about "Nothing" : The Kyōto school as "media philosophy" / Fabian Schäfer -- Kobayashi Hideo and the question of media / Keisuke Kitano -- Media, mediation, and crisis : a history, and the case for media studies as (postcultural) anthropology / Tom Looser.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretical and conceptual work on media for the first time, challenging media theory's Eurocentric formation and perspective and redefining its location and practice.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctv12404zd
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Media theory in Japan.
International Standard Book Number
9780822363125
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mass media-- Philosophy.
Mass media-- Political aspects-- Japan-- History-- 20th century.
Mass media-- Social aspects-- Japan-- History-- 20th century.