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Pure Invention
How Japan Made the Modern World
Taschenbuch von Matt Alt
Sprache: Englisch

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"Japan is the forge of the world's fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokâemon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and '80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the "lost decades" of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that's precisely when its cultural clout soared--when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them--connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japan's pop-media complex remade global culture." --
"Japan is the forge of the world's fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokâemon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and '80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the "lost decades" of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that's precisely when its cultural clout soared--when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them--connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japan's pop-media complex remade global culture." --
Über den Autor
Matt Alt is a Tokyo-based writer, translator, and reporter. He is a contributor to The New Yorker online, CNN, Wired, Slate, The Independent, Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and many other publications, and is the co-author of six illustrated books about Japan.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781984826718
ISBN-10: 1984826719
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Alt, Matt
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Crown Books
Abbildungen: 30 B/W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT
Maße: 201 x 130 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Matt Alt
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,27 kg
Artikel-ID: 120277162
Über den Autor
Matt Alt is a Tokyo-based writer, translator, and reporter. He is a contributor to The New Yorker online, CNN, Wired, Slate, The Independent, Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and many other publications, and is the co-author of six illustrated books about Japan.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781984826718
ISBN-10: 1984826719
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Alt, Matt
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Crown Books
Abbildungen: 30 B/W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT
Maße: 201 x 130 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Matt Alt
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,27 kg
Artikel-ID: 120277162
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