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Lecture Notes

SES #TOPICS
Week 1: Introduction
1Introduction to the Course (PDF)
Week 2: Analyzing Japan / Analyzing Popular Culture
2Film Segment: "The Japanese Version" (PDF)
3The History of Popular Music in Japan (PDF)
Week 3: Racial Boundaries and Representation in Popular Culture
4Film Segment: "Doubles" (PDF)
5Race in Japanese Hip-Hop (PDF)
Week 4: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
6Seminar on "Gender Roles and Anime."

If unable to attend the Seminar, then your Assignment is to Write a 2-page Commentary Contrasting Two of the Assigned Readings (Due by Ses #8) (PDF
7Special Event: "Comfort Women of Korea visit MIT."

If you cannot attend, an additional assignment can be done instead (PDF)
Week 5: Identity, Resistance, and Popular Culture: Borders and Crossings
8Japanese Identity: Homogeneity or Difference? (PDF)
9Methods and Approaches to the Study of Popular Culture (PDF)
Week 6: Manga and Cultural Production
10Harvard Talk (PDF)
11A Sociology of Cultural Production of Manga (PDF)
Week 7: Manga and Power
12Metropolis: Fritz Lang to Tezuka to Otomo
13Manga and Social Commentary
Week 8: Manga and Anime
14Harvard Talk
15Who are the Otaku?
Week 9: Assessing Manga as Cultural Form
16In Class Discussion of Manga Issues Re: Essay 2
Week 10: Re-Imagining Japan
18Tradition and Transnationalism
19Flow or Appropriation - Whose Culture is it? (2)
Week 11: Japanese Television
20Student Presentations 1
21Japanese Television
Week 12: Japanese Popular Literature
22Student Presentations 2
23Japanese Popular Literature
Week 13: Crisis and Restructuring
Week 14: Popular Culture and Japan's Future

 








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