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Brienza, Casey E. "Books, Not Comics: Publishing Fields, Globalization, and Japanese Manga in the United States." Publishing Research Quarterly 25.(2009): 101–17. 
Added by: joachim (26/10/2009, 02:03)   
Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-009-9114-2
BibTeX citation key: Brienza2009
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Categories: General
Keywords: Bourdieu. Pierre, Comic book industry, Distribution, Interculturalism, Japan, Manga, Reception, USA
Creators: Brienza
Collection: Publishing Research Quarterly
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Abstract
The market for Japanese comics, called manga, in the United States grew rapidly at the beginning of the twenty first century at a rate unprecedented in the publishing industry. Sales grew a remarkable 350% from $60 million in 2002 to $210 million in 2007 and did not begin to decline until the beginning of the recent economic downturn beginning in late 2008. No published research is yet able to account for this phenomenon in a manner that is both socially-situated and medium-specific. In this paper, I provide such a sociological account of the rise of manga in the United States and its implications for the globalization of culture. Adapting Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical formulation of the cultural field, I argue that manga migrated from the comics field to the book field and that the ways in which industry practices, distribution networks, and target demographics differ between the two fields are directly responsible for the medium’s newfound visibility. Furthermore, I argue that, despite the now-common transparency of the Japanese origin of Japanese titles, the American publishing industry’s creation of manga as a category of books distinct from other comics is an ineluctable naturalizing process that ultimately erases from American consciousness the Japanese, the foreign, the other.
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