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Dialectics of the Goddess in Japanese Audiovisual Culture
About this book
Through provocative essays by specialists in different aspects of Japanese culture, this book provides an historical and analytical survey of the presence of Goddesses in Japanese audiovisual culture from its origins to the present day. It shows how these feminine myths are represented in Japan; not only as beneficial or creative deities, but also the archetypal strong or dominant woman that sometimes overshadows masculine figures and heroes, or as influential figures. Therefore, it analyzes this rich dialectic of the feminine and how the audiovisual culture has represented it thus far in film, TV series, and video games made in Japan. While many theories have been proposed to explain the presence of Goddesses in Japan, this book's focus on audiovisual culture explores how this corpus challenges the traditional conceptions of the feminine as related to Goddesses.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Representations of Goddesses in Japanese Audiovisual Culture—A New Concept
- Chapter One. Kannon-sama and the Spirit of Compassion in Japanese Cinema
- Chapter Two. Suffering and Deification: The Goddess in Night Drum
- Chapter Three. The Profound Desire of the Goddess: Sexuality and Politics in The Insect Woman
- Chapter Four. Anime Goddesses and Their Hollywood Transformations
- Chapter Five. Lost Names, Deviant Attitudes, and the Ether: Goddesses in Contemporary Japanese Audiovisuals
- Chapter Six. The Humanization of the Goddess: Takahata Isao’s Princess Kaguya
- Chapter Seven. Goddesses in Japanese Videogames: Tradition, Gameplay, Gender, and Power
- Chapter Eight. Ghostly Goddesses in Japanese Cinema
- Index
- About the Contributors