Academy of devotion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7538732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cindi L Sturtzsreetharan (0000-0001-7528-8991, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176-203 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender and Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-6321 • E-ISSN: 1747-633X |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/genl.21361 |
| OpenAlex | W2642506834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
In the late 1990s, Japan was experiencing an economic recession combined with an unrelenting stagnated birth rate; Japanese people and government officials called for men to increase their participation in domestic duties and life. Amid this outcry, an all-male reality TV comedy programme debuted: Junj? Gakuen Otokogumi (Academy of Devotion: Men’s Team) regaled late-night audiences with men being stereotypically masculine and hilarious. This article focuses specifically on two of the participants’ linguistic and physical behaviours in this TV programme. The two men are famous Kansai-based comedians, but act as high school teachers in the programme. The programme, I argue, provides a counternarrative to the national movement towards a softer masculinity that engages in domestic duties and delivers, instead, the kind of stereotypical masculinity associated with hegemonic salaryman ideology
Art · Comedy · Hegemonic masculinity · Hierarchy · Ideology · Masculinity · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reality television · Reality tv · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising
Weight, gender, and depressive symptoms in S outh K orea
Language, gender and sexuality in Japanese popular media
Asian masculinity celebrated and otherised
Masculinity, race and national identity
The formation of a sociolinguistic style in translation
Identity and category construction of the sengyoshufu (‘househusband’) in Japanese TV shows
Contesting and advocating gender ideologies
Language and Masculinities
White hot heroes
Sounding like a father
Varying orientations to sharing life stories
| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |