characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.
Japan's Database Animals
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/03/2009
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on by mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the
characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.
characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.
- ISBN:
- 9780816653522
- 9780816653522
- Category:
- Popular culture
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 25-03-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 200
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x137x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.21kg
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