Japanese Fantasy in Contemporary Popular Culture
Thursday 18, September – Saturday 20, September 2008
At the University of Helsinki, Finland
Gothic Lolitas, anime and J-pop mixes with Western mainstream popular culture, as Japanese horror films are remade in Hollywood, Finnish kiosks sell manga, and Japanese pop music attracts unforeseen audiences. Cuteness and monsters, stories and humours, sexuality and violence in Japanese fantasy appeal widely in Western cultures. Mutually, the Western styles fascinate in Japan. Styles and imageries circulate between “Japan” and “West”, appearing to each other as both familiar and fascinatingly strange at the same time.
The Finnish Society for Cinema Studies (SETS) invites presentations which explore the popular images of Japan in intercultural and multidisciplinary context, concentrating on the theme of intercultural encounters. The conference will bring together Japanese and Western views on contemporary Japanese audiovisual and popular culture. The conference will offer a multidisciplinary platform for scholars of a wide range of relevant fields of studies in popular culture, film and media, and is open to presentations from the entire spectrum of popular culture: film, television, music, new media; photography and other visual arts; sound, games, fashion and design. Lue lisää…
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