1st Edition
Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century Consuming the Past
1. List of Figures
2. Acknowledgements
3. Notes on Japanese Names and the Romanization of Japanese Words
4. Introduction: Myths about Nostalgia
5. Chapter 1 – Background
6. Chapter 2 – Yearning for Yesterday: Is Modernity an Unfinished Project?—Always: Sunset on Third Street and Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
7. Chapter 3 – Technology and Nostalgia—Project X: Challengers and Hula Girls
8. Chapter 4 – Conflict between Ideal Self and Real Self—Twentieth Century Boys and Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called ‘The Adult Empire Strikes Back’
9. Conclusions
10. Filmography
11. Bibliography
Biography
Katsuyuki Hidaka is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He is also a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, from which he received his Ph.D. degree.
