JPN/EAS 323 • Modern Japanese Culture & Civilization

 

Weeks 12 ~ 14

Contemporary
Japanese Culture

 

anime

 

Week Twelve Film: Mishima: A Life in Four Acts
Monday, April 1st • Modern Literature - "the pure"
  (BB) Mishima Yukio, "Onnagata," pp. 293-312
(BB) Oe Kenzaburô, "Prize Stock" pp. 351-390
Wednesday, April 3rd • Modern Literature - "the mass"
 

(BB) Yoshimoto Bananana, Excerpt from Kitchen pp. 152-171
(BB) Murakami Haruki, "On Meeting My 100% Woman..." pp. 23-28
(BB) Murakami Haruki, "Last Lawn of the Afternoon," pp. 267-290
(BB) Shimizu Yoshinori, "Japanese Entrance Exams for Earnest Young Men," pp. 239-260
Week Thirteen Film: Choose either Kikujirô or Nobody Knows

Monday, April 8th • Modern Film
  (BB) "Making Audiences," Richie pp. 213-259
Wednesday, April 10th • Manga & Anime
  Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture ch. 13, pp. 236-259
Tsutsui "Introdcution" and ch. 1 pp. 1-22
Week Fourteen Film: Akira
Monday, April 15th • Superflat and Otaku Japan
  Tsutsui ch. 2-3, pp. 23-46
(BB) "Earth in My Window" and "Superflat Trilogy," Murakami, pp. 98-161
Wednesday, April 17th • Exporting Japan
  (BB) "Japan's Gross National Cool," McGray pp. 44-54
Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture ch. 19, pp. 352-368
Tsutsui ch. 4-5, pp. 47-67

 

 

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