Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

John Whittier Treat

doi:10.2307/3096686

Adult Manga

Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

Bibliographic Data

ID	10293132
Authors	John Whittier Treat (corresponding author)
Year	2001
Volume	56
Issue	4
Pages	577-577
Publication date	2001-01-01
Open Access	No
Type	REVIEW
Review of	Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, Sharon Kinsella, 2015
Venue	Monumenta Nipponica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiers	ISSN: 0027-0741 • E-ISSN: 1880-1390
Publisher	JSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI	10.2307/3096686
OpenAlex	W2146036787
Language	EN

This text examines the rise and fall of Japan's mammoth comic industry since the 1960s. In her history of the manga industry, Sharon Kinsella documents the structure and history of manga, probes into its related subculture and the anti-nerd otaku panic, and examines the difficult and fascinating relationship between the artists and editors who create manga. In the process, she argues that Japanese comics have shifted from being a lower-class medium for marginal citizens to becoming a novel form of official communication, recently embraced by big business and national institutions. This ascent of manga through various layers of post-war society reflects the wider transformation of politics and social organization in Japan during the last years of the 20th century

Aesthetics · Art · Japanese culture · Japanese studies · Literature · Power (physics · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture

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