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Prough, Jennifer. Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. Added by: joachim (3/29/12, 4:38 PM) Last edited by: joachim (8/30/13, 12:00 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-8248-3457-9 BibTeX citation key: Prough2011 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Gender, Japan, Manga Creators: Prough Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu) |
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Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Shojo manga (girls’ comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls’ culture throughout the postwar era. In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. With their glittery pastel covers and focus on human relationships and romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender—as indeed are almost all manga titles, magazines, and publishing divisions. Drawing on two years of fieldwork on the production of shojo manga, Prough analyzes shojo manga texts and their magazine contexts to explain their distinctive appeal, probe the gendered dynamics inherent in their creation, and demonstrate the feedback system that links producers and consumers in a continuous cycle of “affective labor.” Each chapter focuses on one facet of shojo manga production (stories, format, personnel, industry dynamics), providing engaging insights into this popular medium. Tacking between story development, interactive magazine features, and relationships between male editors and female artists, Prough examines the concrete ways in which shojo manga reflect, refract, and fabricate constructions of gender, consumption, and intimacy. Straight from the Heart thus weaves together issues of production and consumption, human relations, and gender to explain the unique world of shojo mangaand to interpret its dramatic cultural and economic success on a national—and increasingly global—scale. Table of Contents Acknowledgments (ix) 1. The Heart of the Matter: Gender, Intimacy, and Consumption in the Production of Shōjo Manga (1) Appendix A. Magazine List (147) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |