Hi Jan,<br>I once wrote an article on a related sort of show: Burlesquing Knowledge in Banks and Morphy edited <i>Rethinking Visual Anthropology.</i> Don't know if it will help. Lola<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/17 Jan Paul Hoga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:janpaulhoga@gmail.com">janpaulhoga@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Courier New"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">Name:
Jan Paul Hoga<br>Institutional affiliation or job: Center for
Japanese Studies, University of Marburg, Germany<br>City and country:
Marburg, Germany<br>Research projects or publications: Master-Thesis
about the Japanese “self” and the “other” in media (not even
a working title)<br>Interests with regard to Japanese film and moving
image media: Japanese television and film in general. More of the old
films as the new ones though.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Hello
everyone! </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">I'm
getting near my Mastersthesis and need to find an appropriate topic
putting japan and media together. Now my search led me to the topic
of the “self” and the “other” contructed in japanese media of
every kind, in its extremes pushing and maintaining the myth of
“nihonjinron” in japanese society. I found the TV-show “koko ga
hen da yo nihonjin” as a real popular media product ideal for
looking at this topic maybe from a way the cultural studies do it. For
those who don't know the show, it's a kind of dicussion often leading
to verbal battle between foreigners and Japanese, talking about any
kind “national” and later on “international” topic or
problem, i.e. “ijime”, stamps made of ivory, killing wales, love
hotels and so on.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">I
know it's not exacly japanese “film” but maybe you could help me
to get more than the two episodes I got from my professor on tape. I
looked it up in the internet for buying (ok, and downloading) but it
seems to be too old (it ran from 1999 to 2001) for being digitalized
and spread very far. I think of writing to TBS and asking them by a
formal letter if they can do something. Do you think they will let me
have it? You have any suggestions on laying hands on enough episodes
to write a masters thesis? </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Best
regards,</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Jan
Paul Hoga </font></font>
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