Manga

Social Distance Portrayed: Television News in Japan and the UK

by Scott Koga-Browes

Draft version. FInal version will appear in "Visual Communication" during 2012

The potential of the camera framing, or shot-size, semiotic resource to encode meanings related to social distance has... more The potential of the camera framing, or shot-size, semiotic resource to encode meanings related to social distance has been recognised for some time. This study seeks to bring this resource into the remit of objective analysis.
Data is taken from screen measurements of portrayals of social actors in news programming produced by two national broadcasters NHK in Japan and the BBC in the UK. Results for these two media outlets are compared and an attempt made to place the results in a meaningful cultural context. Analysis focusses on NHK’s images and the less familiar Japanese media system.

Men Under Pressure: Representations of The 'salaryman' and his Organization In Japanese Manga

by Peter Matanle

Co-authored peer reviewed journal article.

Matanle, P., McCann, L. and Ashmore, D.J. (2008) . Men under pressure: Representations of the 'salaryman' and his organization In Japanese manga, Organization, 15 (5): 639-664.

In this article we analyse representations of the Japanese salaryman and Japanese organization in Japanese manga, or... more In this article we analyse representations of the Japanese salaryman and Japanese organization in Japanese manga, or graphic novels, during the turbulent decades from the mid-1980s to the present day. We argue that manga presents salarymen protagonists in a sympathetic yet not uncritical light, and that it displays support for and criticism of both the Japanese and American organizational models. We describe how these manga offer important critical challenges from the world of popular culture to the direction of change in Japanese business organizations since the 1980s. In addition, we suggest that the manga may also provide salarymen with opportunities for critically re-evaluating their own working situations and for developing methods for surviving and thriving under the pressures of working within contemporary Japanese business organizations.

"Drawing Out Lesbians: Blurred Representations of Lesbian Desire in Shōjo Manga."

by James Welker

In Lesbian Voices, Canada and the World, ed. Subhash Chandra, 156–84. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2006.

"Lilies of the Margin: Beautiful Boys and Lesbian Identities."

by James Welker

In AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in the Asia-Pacific, ed. Fran Martin et al., 46-66. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

"Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shōjo Manga."

by James Welker

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31, no. 3 (2006): 841-70.

Awarded 2006 Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, and queer studies by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA Awarded 2006 Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, and queer studies by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA

"From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translated Texts and the Transfiguration of Gender and Sexuality in Shōjo Manga."

by James Welker

In Girl Reading Girl in Japan, ed. Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley, 160-73. London: Routledge, 2010.

“Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shōjo Manga.”

by James Welker

Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Graphic Arts 6 (2011): 211-28 .

The Cyberpunk Genre in Japanese Anime and Manga by Rufus Montecalvo

by rufus montecalvo

submitted as an undergraduate research paper

Anime and manga have become major entertainment exports of Japan since the last decades. As of 2006, Japanese anime... more Anime and manga have become major entertainment exports of Japan since the last decades. As of 2006, Japanese anime comprise almost sixty percent of all animation broadcast worldwide. It generates four billion dollars a year in the United States alone, and foreign revenue account for almost twenty-five per cent of the income of leading Japanese animation companies such as Toei. Particularly in the Philippines, a substantial segment of young people are exposed to Japanese popular culture through these avenues. During the 90s, several anime series were shown in the two major television channels of the country usually dubbed in Tagalog. A few examples are Sailor Moon, Voltes V, Daimos, Doraemon, Mojacko, Thunder Jet and Ghost Fighter. A specific genre in this huge industry is science fiction. A most interesting and specific sub-genre within science fiction in general and Japanese animation and manga in particular, is cyberpunk.