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Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
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- Objectstaat
- ISBN
- 9781984826695
- Book Title
- Pure Invention : How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Asia / Japan, Globalization, Popular Culture, Economics / General
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination, from karaoke and the Walkman to anime and emoji. During the "economic miracle" of the 1970s and 80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, soaring on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota while the West struggled to catch up. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in what the Japanese call their "lost decades." The end of the boom times should have plunged Japan into irrelevance. But in Pure Invention , Matt Alt argues that's precisely when things got interesting--when once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Japan made itself rich after the Second World War by selling the world what it needed, in the form of better cars, appliances, and microprocessors. But it conquered hearts through wildly creative pop culture that responded to modern life in new ways. As social compacts and safety nets evaporated, in rushed a revolution of geeky gadgets, gizmos, and flights of fancy. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and illustrated entertainment empires like Pok mon and Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. They transformed Japan into the world's forge of fantasies, and they transformed us as we consumed them: karaoke making everyone a star, emoji rewriting the rules of human communication, virtual game-worlds offering escapes from reality and new perspectives on it. By turns a nostalgia trip and a secret history, Pure Invention is the story of an indelible group of Japanese craftsmen, artists, businesspeople, geniuses, and oddballs. It is also an unsung chapter of globalization, in which Japanese dreams formed a new blueprint for global pop culture--and may have created the modern world as we know it.
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1984826697
ISBN-13
9781984826695
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038563319
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pure Invention : How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Japan, Globalization, Popular Culture, Economics / General
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hd9993.T693j325 2020
Reviews
"From karaoke to manga, emoji to Pokémon, the creations of modern Japanese style have transformed that country and daily life around the world. Pure Invention is a delightful and highly informed view of the people, ideas, and insights behind this pop-cultural revolution." --James Fallows, author of China Airborne " Pure Invention is part careful ethnography, part insightful cultural history of the creative men and women who reimagined Japan in the postwar period. Matt Alt tells their backstories and illuminates the impact of their creations, from toy army jeeps stamped from tin cans in the rubble of World War II to a torrent of anime streamed on Netflix. It's difficult to imagine a more instructive or entertaining account of a fascinating place, people, and period." --Stephen Snyder, professor of Japanese studies at Middlebury College and translator of Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police "Hello Kitty and Pikachu didn't just wander into your house by accident. Maybe they snuck in while you were out crooning karaoke with Super Mario? Intriguing and insightful, Pure Invention hands readers a backdoor key to Japan's culture trend factory, whose offbeat creators remixed and reimagined the world right under our noses." --Alfred Birnbaum, translator of Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World "The rise of Japanese popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is an incredible story. Japan conquered hearts and minds with appealing objects and new sensibilities: kawaii characters, digital cultures, and new forms of personal identities. Alt tells this story with verve and panache, giving a comprehensive overview of Japan's soft power that is informative, enlightening, and always entertaining." --Susan Napier, professor of the Japanese program at Tufts University and author of Miyazakiworld, "Fascinating . . . Alt's choice of interviewees and attention to detail marks Pure Invention as one of the best of its kind. If you're a curious reader looking for an accessible (and recent!) popular history, I highly recommend this book." -- Crunchyroll "A kinetic canter through the social history of globalizsed Japanese culture." --Peter Guest, Mekong Review "From karaoke to manga, emoji to Pokémon, the creations of modern Japanese style have transformed that country and daily life around the world. Pure Invention is a delightful and highly informed view of the people, ideas, and insights behind this pop-cultural revolution." --James Fallows, author of China Airborne " Pure Invention is part careful ethnography, part insightful cultural history of the creative men and women who reimagined Japan in the postwar period. It's difficult to imagine a more instructive or entertaining account of a fascinating place, people, and period." --Stephen Snyder, professor of Japanese studies at Middlebury College and translator of Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police "Hello Kitty and Pikachu didn't just wander into your house by accident. Maybe they snuck in while you were out crooning karaoke with Super Mario? Intriguing and insightful, Pure Invention hands readers a backdoor key to Japan's culture trend factory, whose offbeat creators remixed and reimagined the world right under our noses." --Alfred Birnbaum, translator of Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World "As startlingly original as the inventions that it describes . . . Required reading for Japanophiles, this book reads like your most interesting anthropology textbook, weaving together interviews, anecdotes, and primary source material about some of Japan's most iconic creations. . . . People often ask me why, as an American, I'm so interested in Japanese culture. This book finally provides me with an answer."-- Lauren Orsini, Forbes "The rise of Japanese popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is an incredible story. Alt tells this story with verve and panache, giving a comprehensive overview of Japan's soft power that is informative, enlightening, and always entertaining." --Susan Napier, professor of Japanese studies at Tufts University and author of Miyazakiworld "A masterful exploration of a history, a people and a culture that have shaped our use of technology, our conception of storytelling, and our fascination with Kitties named 'Hello.'" -- The Irish Times "A brilliant cultural survey . . . Alt's careful history is a reminder of [Japan's] spirited creativity." -- Booklist (starred review) "Deep, engaging . . . A savvy study of Japan's wide influence in ways both subtle and profound." -- Kirkus Reviews, "From karaoke to manga, emoji to Pokémon, the creations of modern Japanese style have transformed that country and daily life around the world. Pure Invention is a delightful and highly informed view of the people, ideas, and insights behind this pop-cultural revolution." --James Fallows, author of China Airborne " Pure Invention is part careful ethnography, part insightful cultural history of the creative men and women who reimagined Japan in the postwar period. Matt Alt tells their backstories and illuminates the impact of their creations, from toy army jeeps stamped out of tin cans in the rubble of World War II to a torrent of anime streamed on Netflix. It's difficult to imagine a more instructive or entertaining account of a fascinating place, people, and period." --Stephen Snyder, professor of Japanese studies at Middlebury College and translator of Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police "Hello Kitty and Pikachu didn't just wander into your house by accident. Maybe they snuck in while you were out crooning karaoke with Super Mario? Intriguing and insightful, Pure Invention hands readers a backdoor key to Japan's culture trend factory, whose offbeat creators remixed and reimagined the world right under our noses." --Alfred Birnbaum, translator of Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World "As startlingly original as the inventions that it describes . . . Required reading for Japanophiles, this book reads like your most interesting anthropology textbook, weaving together interviews, anecdotes, and primary source material about some of Japan's most iconic creations. . . . People often ask me why, as an American, I'm so interested in Japanese culture. This book finally provides me with an answer."-- Lauren Orsini, Forbes "The rise of Japanese popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is an incredible story. Japan conquered hearts and minds with appealing objects and new sensibilities: kawaii characters, digital cultures, and new forms of personal identities. Alt tells this story with verve and panache, giving a comprehensive overview of Japan's soft power that is informative, enlightening, and always entertaining." --Susan Napier, professor of Japanese studies at Tufts University and author of Miyazakiworld "A masterful exploration of a history, a people and a culture that have shaped our use of technology, our conception of storytelling, and our fascination with Kitties named 'Hello.'" -- The Irish Times "A brilliant cultural survey . . . Alt's careful history is a reminder of [Japan's] spirited creativity." -- Booklist (starred review) "Deep, engaging . . . A savvy study of Japan's wide influence in ways both subtle and profound." -- Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2020-007250
Dewey Decimal
306.0952
Dewey Edition
23
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