Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
Palgrave Macmillan | 2006 | ISBN: 1403974756 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 1.72 MB
Palgrave Macmillan | 2006 | ISBN: 1403974756 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 1.72 MB
"Japanamerica is the book I have been waiting for. It tells the incredible story of the way the colorful and eccentric world of Japanese entertainment and popular art has enriched our lives in the West. But it also deals with why it has a poetry that has taken Americans many years to understand and feel able to echo. Japan's holocaust was equally traumatic to the ones experienced by many Americans, and perhaps more sudden, more extreme and more focused. This story shows how today we all use movies, comics, music, art and advertising to face our past and its traumas, rather than to escape. The Japanese methods of facing the past are restrained and unusual, but ultimately glorious, and mean more to us in our post-9/11 era than ever they could before. Roland Kelts, part American, part Japanese, brings real insight to the way this union of hearts and souls through entertainment will continue to grow and draw two very different worlds together." – –Pete Townshend, The Who