Michal Daliot-Bul
Biographic Data
| ID | 640256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michal Daliot-Bul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michal |
| FAMILY NAME | Daliot-Bul |
| SIGNATURE | DALIOT-BUL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haifa University, Israel, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voyage to Innumerable Star Worlds: A Nineteenth-Century Japanese SF Novel
The origins of Japanese sf in the late nineteenth century have drawn little attention, yet they provide a revealing spree of cultural production. The historical setting of these beginnings is the post-Meiji imperial restoration (1868) that set Japan firmly on the path to Western-style modernization, including in Japanese literature. This article introduces one particular political novel with strong sf elements, Voyage to Innumerable Star Worlds (…
The Anime Boom in the United States: 1972–1989
License to play: The ludic in Japanese culture
Play is one of the most powerful cultural forces in contemporary Japan and in other late modern societies. In this notable contribution to our understanding of play, Michal Daliot-Bul explores the intricate and dynamic transformations of culture and play (asobi) in Japan. Along the way, she takes readers on a theoretically informed journey to better comprehend what makes play a significant cultural function, asking such questions as "How can we e…
Asobi in Action: Contesting the cultural meanings and cultural boundaries of play in Tokyo from the 1970s to the present
In the past 30 years, play (asobi) has become the subject of a heated ideological debate in urban Japan, reflecting processes of cultural transformation. During these years, a late consumer culture characterized by an incessant pursuit of playlike hedonistic pleasures has reached its apotheosis within a conservative social context that maintains high levels of conformity and prioritizes production. It is against the background of these sociocultu…
Japan's mobile technoculture: The Production of a Cellular Playscape and Its Cultural Implications
The reception of mobile communication and internet by Japan’s youth in the late 1990s has determined the shaping of the mobile communication market in this country. From a business-oriented device, mobile phones were transformed into an intensely personal part of the users’ lives, particularly notable for offering a spectacular interactive playscape that challenges the tyranny of everyday life. Rather than being a trivial mechanism of stress rele…
Eroticism, Grotesqueness and Non-Sense: Twenty-first Century Cultural Imagery of Japan in the Israeli Media and Popular Culture1
The formation of cultural imageries amidst the current transnational dynamics is presently a highly debated issue. In this paper I explore a significant contemporary discourse about Japan in the Israeli media and in different forms of Israeli popular culture that objectifies and differentiates Japan as a futuristic and often decadent Other, exhibiting the conventions of an Orientalist style of thought. Although Israelis are actively involved in t…
Shall We Dansu: Dancing with the 'West' in contemporary Japan
In this article we offer a reading of the film 'Shall We Dansu ?' as a cultural text which sheds light on the intriguing theme of the various ways in which things Western and the 'West' as a cultural concept are played with in contemporary Japan. Social dancing has been regarded, from the time of its introduction to Japan in the 1930s, as a Western social skill. While ballroom dancing often has the qualities of 'alternative realities',we argue th…
Japan's mobile technoculture: The Production of a Cellular Playscape and Its Cultural Implications
The reception of mobile communication and internet by Japan’s youth in the late 1990s has determined the shaping of the mobile communication market in this country. From a business-oriented device, mobile phones were transformed into an intensely personal part of the users’ lives, particularly notable for offering a spectacular interactive playscape that challenges the tyranny of everyday life. Rather than being a trivial mechanism of stress rele…
Eroticism, Grotesqueness and Non-Sense: Twenty-first Century Cultural Imagery of Japan in the Israeli Media and Popular Culture1
The formation of cultural imageries amidst the current transnational dynamics is presently a highly debated issue. In this paper I explore a significant contemporary discourse about Japan in the Israeli media and in different forms of Israeli popular culture that objectifies and differentiates Japan as a futuristic and often decadent Other, exhibiting the conventions of an Orientalist style of thought. Although Israelis are actively involved in t…
Shall We Dansu: Dancing with the 'West' in contemporary Japan
In this article we offer a reading of the film 'Shall We Dansu ?' as a cultural text which sheds light on the intriguing theme of the various ways in which things Western and the 'West' as a cultural concept are played with in contemporary Japan. Social dancing has been regarded, from the time of its introduction to Japan in the 1930s, as a Western social skill. While ballroom dancing often has the qualities of 'alternative realities',we argue th…
Shall We Dansu: Dancing with the 'West' in contemporary Japan
In this article we offer a reading of the film 'Shall We Dansu ?' as a cultural text which sheds light on the intriguing theme of the various ways in which things Western and the 'West' as a cultural concept are played with in contemporary Japan. Social dancing has been regarded, from the time of its introduction to Japan in the 1930s, as a Western social skill. While ballroom dancing often has the qualities of 'alternative realities',we argue th…
Japan's mobile technoculture: The Production of a Cellular Playscape and Its Cultural Implications
The reception of mobile communication and internet by Japan’s youth in the late 1990s has determined the shaping of the mobile communication market in this country. From a business-oriented device, mobile phones were transformed into an intensely personal part of the users’ lives, particularly notable for offering a spectacular interactive playscape that challenges the tyranny of everyday life. Rather than being a trivial mechanism of stress rele…
Eroticism, Grotesqueness and Non-Sense: Twenty-first Century Cultural Imagery of Japan in the Israeli Media and Popular Culture1
The formation of cultural imageries amidst the current transnational dynamics is presently a highly debated issue. In this paper I explore a significant contemporary discourse about Japan in the Israeli media and in different forms of Israeli popular culture that objectifies and differentiates Japan as a futuristic and often decadent Other, exhibiting the conventions of an Orientalist style of thought. Although Israelis are actively involved in t…
Asobi in Action: Contesting the cultural meanings and cultural boundaries of play in Tokyo from the 1970s to the present
In the past 30 years, play (asobi) has become the subject of a heated ideological debate in urban Japan, reflecting processes of cultural transformation. During these years, a late consumer culture characterized by an incessant pursuit of playlike hedonistic pleasures has reached its apotheosis within a conservative social context that maintains high levels of conformity and prioritizes production. It is against the background of these sociocultu…
License to play: The ludic in Japanese culture
Play is one of the most powerful cultural forces in contemporary Japan and in other late modern societies. In this notable contribution to our understanding of play, Michal Daliot-Bul explores the intricate and dynamic transformations of culture and play (asobi) in Japan. Along the way, she takes readers on a theoretically informed journey to better comprehend what makes play a significant cultural function, asking such questions as "How can we e…
The Anime Boom in the United States: 1972–1989
Voyage to Innumerable Star Worlds: A Nineteenth-Century Japanese SF Novel
The origins of Japanese sf in the late nineteenth century have drawn little attention, yet they provide a revealing spree of cultural production. The historical setting of these beginnings is the post-Meiji imperial restoration (1868) that set Japan firmly on the path to Western-style modernization, including in Japanese literature. This article introduces one particular political novel with strong sf elements, Voyage to Innumerable Star Worlds (…
Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works)