anthropological studies of Jap. TV-shows?

[Chalfen]

>A friend recently asked me whether I knew of research about Japanese
>TV-shows from an anthropological perspective, possibly comparative in
>outlook. Not just descriptions of the outrageous, the hilarious and the
>unbelievable (with this "look! how weird!"-undertone), but something
>more profound: Sociological audience studies, reception studies, links
>with other, non-TV forms of entertainment, development of forms and
>patterns (with discussion of influences from the US, perhaps),
>positioning of TV-shows within the Japanese context of popular culture,
>their location in the all-pervasive universe of "kawaiiiiiii"-ness, the
>psychology of games, and so on.
>
>Any hints appreciated,
>
>birgit kellner
>department for indian philosophy
>hiroshima university

Dear Birgit,

here are a few references I suggest as required reading in a course I give
at Temple Univ. entitled "Visual Anthropology of Modern Japan."  Naturally
some are more helpful than others, but this is a place to start.   Please
let us know of other references as you locate them.

Best, Dick Chalfen
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	* "On the Anthropology of Television: A Perspective from Japan" by
Andrew 	A. Painter in Visual Anthropology Review  10(1): 70-84 (1994).
	* "Japanese Daytime Television, Popular Culture and Ideology" by
Andrew 	A. Painter in Journal of Japanese Studies 19(2): 295-325 (1993).
	* "Analysis of Conflict in a Television Home Drama" by Agnes M.
Niyekawa 	in Conflict in Japan eds. Krauss, Rohlen and Steinhoff
(Honolulu, HI: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1984), pp. 61-84.
	* "Japanese Television" by Bruce Stronach in Handbook of Japanese
	Popular Culture, R.G. Powers and Hidetosi Kato (eds), New York:
Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 127-165.
	* "The Drug of the Nation" by Minoru Tamura in Look Japan, (March),
pp. 8-10.
	* "TV Dating -- Matings for Ratings" by Kim Eastham in Mangajin (1994
(--): 10-14, 56.
	* "Anything Goes on Late-Night TV" by Andy Jones in Mangajin 45
(May, 	1990): 14-19.
	* "The Soul of the Japanese Advertising" by Fred Perry in Mangajin 42
(Feb. 1995): 14-19.
	* "Too few shows threaten TV" by Sebastian Moffett in The Japan
Times 	January 14, 1995.
	* "TV: The Presentational Image" by Donald Richie in A Lateral View
-- 	Essays on Contemporary Japan, Tokyo: The Japan Times, 1987.  Pp.
175-185.
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