D Shamoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 43237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Shamoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Shamoon |
| SIGNATURE | SHAMOON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9464-5130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the similarities and differences between these two distinct but interrelated media forms. Firmly based in Japanese sources, this volume offers a lively and accessible introduction, exploring the local contexts of manga and anime production, distribution, and recepti…
Exner, E. (2022). Comics and the origins of manga: A revisionist history. Rutgers University Press
Class S: Appropriation of ‘lesbian’ subculture in modern Japanese literature and New Wave cinema
In the 1920s in Japan, girls attending single-sex secondary schools developed a girls’ culture (shōjo bunka) or subculture to insulate themselves temporarily from the pressures of patriarchal society. Part of this subculture was a practice called s kankei (s or sister relationships), also called Class S, which were same-sex romantic attachments between classmates, condoned at the time as a temporary practice relationship that would end upon gradu…
Gazing on the Shōjo: Kawabata Yasunari’s Novels for Girls ( Shōjo Shōsetsu )
Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972), Japan’s first Nobel laureate in literature, is best known today for highbrow novels such as Yukiguni (Snow country, 1935–1947). But in the 1930s and 1940s, Kawabata was deeply involved with the girls’ literary magazine Shōjo no tomo (The girls’ friend) as an editor and an author of novels for girls (shōjo shōsetsu). This article calls for a critical reevaluation of Kawabata’s fiction in terms of his involvement with…
Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
In The Anime Machine, Thomas Lamarre laments the low level of critical discourse in anime studies in English, and issues ‘a call to move beyond the book report or film review model that currently holds sway in studies of anime, which tends to rely on a summary of the anime narrative in conjunction with a consideration of major themes’ (2009: p. xxxi). Although only four years have passed since Lamarre’s book was published, already the scene has c…
Recreating traditional music in postwar Japan: A Prehistory of Enka
This article examines how enka evolved from the earlier genre of kayōkyoku, looking at the musical markers of Japaneseness and considering issues of authenticity and originality in those earlier genres. The careers of composers Koga Masao and Hattori Ryōichi and singers Misora Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko show the development of a hybrid style of popular song both before and after the Pacific War, which would by the 1960s evolve into enka. As its co…
The Yōkai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime
10.13110/marvelstales.27.2.0276
The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun'ichirô's Early Novels
Chijin no ai (Naomi, 1924) and Nikukai (A Lump of Flesh, 1923), by Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, were seminal texts in forming the image of the “modern girl” in Japan in the 1920s. In both novels, Hollywood actresses famous for playing vamp roles are central to the construction of the modern girl character. The title Chijin no ai references the Japanese title of the US film A Fool There Was (1915), starring Theda Bara as the prototypical vamp. In a US con…
Teaching Japanese Popular Culture
Japanese popular culture has arrived on American college campuses as never before. Student interest in Japanese manga (comic books), anime (animated films and television shows), and video games drives much of the enrollment in Japanese courses and Japanese majors and minors. In response to student interest, as well as the establishment of popular culture as a topic of serious academic scholarship, the demand for courses on Japanese popular cultur…
Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema
In Japanese cinema after World War II, the girl star becomes a site of contesting normative and deviant models of female behavior and also a site for confronting anxieties surrounding the perceived loss of native culture. Part of the process of redefining “proper” girl behavior in the postwar period involved an erasure of older behavioral models and the creation of an imaginary, idealized “traditional” girl persona, derived not from prewar exampl…
Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shojo Manga
10.1353/mec.0.0009
Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women
10.1215/9780822385844-004
Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema
In Japanese cinema after World War II, the girl star becomes a site of contesting normative and deviant models of female behavior and also a site for confronting anxieties surrounding the perceived loss of native culture. Part of the process of redefining “proper” girl behavior in the postwar period involved an erasure of older behavioral models and the creation of an imaginary, idealized “traditional” girl persona, derived not from prewar exampl…
Recreating traditional music in postwar Japan: A Prehistory of Enka
This article examines how enka evolved from the earlier genre of kayōkyoku, looking at the musical markers of Japaneseness and considering issues of authenticity and originality in those earlier genres. The careers of composers Koga Masao and Hattori Ryōichi and singers Misora Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko show the development of a hybrid style of popular song both before and after the Pacific War, which would by the 1960s evolve into enka. As its co…
The Yōkai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime
10.13110/marvelstales.27.2.0276
The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun'ichirô's Early Novels
Chijin no ai (Naomi, 1924) and Nikukai (A Lump of Flesh, 1923), by Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, were seminal texts in forming the image of the “modern girl” in Japan in the 1920s. In both novels, Hollywood actresses famous for playing vamp roles are central to the construction of the modern girl character. The title Chijin no ai references the Japanese title of the US film A Fool There Was (1915), starring Theda Bara as the prototypical vamp. In a US con…
Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women
10.1215/9780822385844-004
Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shojo Manga
10.1353/mec.0.0009
Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema
In Japanese cinema after World War II, the girl star becomes a site of contesting normative and deviant models of female behavior and also a site for confronting anxieties surrounding the perceived loss of native culture. Part of the process of redefining “proper” girl behavior in the postwar period involved an erasure of older behavioral models and the creation of an imaginary, idealized “traditional” girl persona, derived not from prewar exampl…
Teaching Japanese Popular Culture
Japanese popular culture has arrived on American college campuses as never before. Student interest in Japanese manga (comic books), anime (animated films and television shows), and video games drives much of the enrollment in Japanese courses and Japanese majors and minors. In response to student interest, as well as the establishment of popular culture as a topic of serious academic scholarship, the demand for courses on Japanese popular cultur…
The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun'ichirô's Early Novels
Chijin no ai (Naomi, 1924) and Nikukai (A Lump of Flesh, 1923), by Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, were seminal texts in forming the image of the “modern girl” in Japan in the 1920s. In both novels, Hollywood actresses famous for playing vamp roles are central to the construction of the modern girl character. The title Chijin no ai references the Japanese title of the US film A Fool There Was (1915), starring Theda Bara as the prototypical vamp. In a US con…
The Yōkai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime
10.13110/marvelstales.27.2.0276
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
In The Anime Machine, Thomas Lamarre laments the low level of critical discourse in anime studies in English, and issues ‘a call to move beyond the book report or film review model that currently holds sway in studies of anime, which tends to rely on a summary of the anime narrative in conjunction with a consideration of major themes’ (2009: p. xxxi). Although only four years have passed since Lamarre’s book was published, already the scene has c…
Recreating traditional music in postwar Japan: A Prehistory of Enka
This article examines how enka evolved from the earlier genre of kayōkyoku, looking at the musical markers of Japaneseness and considering issues of authenticity and originality in those earlier genres. The careers of composers Koga Masao and Hattori Ryōichi and singers Misora Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko show the development of a hybrid style of popular song both before and after the Pacific War, which would by the 1960s evolve into enka. As its co…
Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women
Class S: Appropriation of ‘lesbian’ subculture in modern Japanese literature and New Wave cinema
In the 1920s in Japan, girls attending single-sex secondary schools developed a girls’ culture (shōjo bunka) or subculture to insulate themselves temporarily from the pressures of patriarchal society. Part of this subculture was a practice called s kankei (s or sister relationships), also called Class S, which were same-sex romantic attachments between classmates, condoned at the time as a temporary practice relationship that would end upon gradu…
Gazing on the Shōjo: Kawabata Yasunari’s Novels for Girls ( Shōjo Shōsetsu )
Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972), Japan’s first Nobel laureate in literature, is best known today for highbrow novels such as Yukiguni (Snow country, 1935–1947). But in the 1930s and 1940s, Kawabata was deeply involved with the girls’ literary magazine Shōjo no tomo (The girls’ friend) as an editor and an author of novels for girls (shōjo shōsetsu). This article calls for a critical reevaluation of Kawabata’s fiction in terms of his involvement with…
Exner, E. (2022). Comics and the origins of manga: A revisionist history. Rutgers University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the similarities and differences between these two distinct but interrelated media forms. Firmly based in Japanese sources, this volume offers a lively and accessible introduction, exploring the local contexts of manga and anime production, distribution, and recepti…
Art (12 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · History (8 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anime (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works)