Islands of eight million smiles: idol performance and symbolic production in contemporary japan
Auteur :
Aoyagi, Hiroshi
Éditeur :
Harvard University, Asia Center
ISBN :
9780674017733
Date de publication :
15 juil. 2005
Poids :
590 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the “idol,†an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.