Consuming Japan : popular culture and the globalizing of 1980s America /

A cultural, economic and intellectual history of U.S.-Japan relations from roughly the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKevitt, Andrew C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Studies in United States culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Resurrecting the ordinary in U.S.-Japan relations
  • Japan won the Cold War, and other strange ideas from an era of ideological change
  • Wakarimasuka: shifting images of Japan from Shōgun to Rising sun
  • Ohayō I: (good) morning again in Marysville
  • Ohayō II: Japanese transplants and the UAW's global squeeze
  • A medium but not a message: the VCR and cultural globalization
  • Authenticity in a hybrid world: sushi at the crossroads of cultural globalization
  • You are not alone!: anime and the globalizing of America
  • Back to the future in U.S.-Japan relations.