Symposium: Contemporary Japanese Media Cultures: Industry, Society and Audiences

Rayna Denison rayna_nottingham at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 21 09:47:13 EDT 2012


Dear All

Please forgive cross-posting and any mistakes I may have made in posting this. I'm running an event the day before this year's British Association of Japanese Studies Conference in Norwich, UK. I would love to see any of you there who might be interested in coming along. The CFP is below, in case you might be interested. We have a lovely keynote speaker in Professor David Desser and several UK industry representatives have already agreed to join us, so I hope it will be a day of lively debate and interest.

Best wishes
Rayna 

Dr Rayna Denison
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich
UK



CALL FOR PAPERS: 

Contemporary Japanese
Media Cultures: Industry, Society and Audiences

Symposium: 5th
September 2012.

This one-day Symposium on
Japanese popular media investigates the significance of contemporary Japanese
media to the wider industries and cultures that they serve. Although access to
Japanese media cultures has never been better for those living outside Japan,
there remains a dearth of analytical engagement with how the Japanese media
industries function, and only patchy coverage exists of the media texts
produced within Japan.  Therefore, this
Symposium seeks to unpack some of the complexities within the Japanese media
landscape, by considering how differing media industries work in collaboration
as well as in competition with one another. In doings so, the aim is to bring
together speakers utilising a wide range of approaches and specialist knowledge
to discuss the interconnectivity of Japan’s media industries, visible in
phenomena such as cross-media adaptations, franchising practices, remakes of
texts and international distribution. We also aim to complicate the notion of
Japanese media industries as “national” by investigating the regional,
transnational and global reach of their texts. 



We seek papers examining how
Japanese media, including (but not limited to) manga, anime, video games,
television, magazine publishing and film operate within and beyond Japanese
borders. The aim is to bring together
experts able to discuss how Japanese media products get made, and why, who gets
to see them (legally or otherwise) and what it is that academic explorations of
Japan’s media might be able to offer the industries and cultures they study. 



Topics might include (but are in no way limited to):

·        
Japanese media franchising

·        
National, regional, transnational and/or global
distribution of Japanese media

·        
Japanese media industries

·        
Cross-media adaptation

·        
Transmedia storytelling

·        
Media production techniques and systems

·        
Cross-media genres

·        
New media texts

·        
Ancillary industries (e.g. Japanese special
effects houses, animation outsourcing, voice acting, stars and their agents)

·        
Translation of media from Japanese to other
languages

·        
Invisible media (e.g. texts or genres popular in
Japan, but not often exported or studied)

·        
Popular cross-media franchises (e.g. Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Atom Boy, Bayside Shakedown)

·        
Reception of Japanese media texts

·        
Audiences, fans and subcultures

 

Symposium to be held in Norwich, in conjunction with the University of
East Anglia, the British Association of Japanese Studies and the Arts and
Humanities Research Council 

 

Papers proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to mangamoviessymposium at gmail.com
by, Monday 30th April 2012. If you would like more information,
please contact r.denison at uea.ac.uk. 


 		 	   		  
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