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ANTHROPOLOGY 215--JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE Projected course outline–subject to revisions

September 2011 - December 2011 Instructor: Dr. Millie Creighton 3 credits, classes meet TTh 9:30-11:00 Office AnSo: 3109 Office Hours: Th 12:45-1:45 and by appt. Office Phone: 604-822-5426

COURSE DESCRIPTION While we will cover basic paradigms utilized in social science research and analysis of Japan, while focusing on Japanese popular and mass culture. Topics covered include such things as: television shows, dramas, movies, advertising, marketing, manga (Japanese style “comics”), anime (Japanese animation), theatrical forms, popular literature, popular music, fashion, fads, tourism, toys, and sports.

REQUIREMENTS Students are expected to attend lectures and participate in discussions. There is a mid-term and a final exam. An essay assignment (suggested length 3-4 pages) is required on a topic to be distributed in class. Students will give collective group presentations. Written assignments must be original works for this class, and cannot be submitted for credit to other classes. These essays must be submitted in class, or to the main office submission box during the appropriate hours. Do not submit assignments under the instructor’s door, in mailboxes on doorsteps, or anywhere else. Do not submit assignments by email unless prior specific agreements have been made for this. Late submissions will result in points deducted from the assignment grade. An individual instructor at UBC cannot necessarily alone grant an extension should an emergency prevent students from taking an exam or completing course work on time. If such a situation arises one can discuss with the instructor and contact the Arts Advising Office for appropriate procedures. Students will not necessarily have the right to make-up missed exams. It is a problem if exams are not taken on the scheduled date, thus taking exams on other than the scheduled dates may result in points deducted from the grade.

GRADING Anticipated Grading Criteria % of total grade Mid-Term Exam 25% Essay Assignment: 30% Group Presentation: 10% Participation: 10% Final Exam: 25% Total 100% Note: Participation involves both attendance and active participation (hence more than simply attending classes). While the grading for participation is separate from the presentation grade, active participation in the group project and results of it for the presentation also figure significantly into the participation grade.

SCHEDULE

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No UBC Undergraduate Arts Clases on Monday, Sept 6, 2011 due to Labour Day holiday No UBC Undergraduate Arts Classes on Tuesday, Sept 7, 2011 due to UBC “Imagine Day” Week: Dates and Topics 1 Sep 9 Japan & Popular Culture in Anthropological Perspective Readings: Japanese Popular Culture, pp. 1-22. 2 Sep 13 and 15 Introduction to Japanese popular culture Readings: Japanese Popular Culture, pp. 23-46 for Tues., Sep 13; 47-71 for Thursday, Sep 15. 3 Sep 20 and 22 Paradigms of Japanese Culture & Early Pop Culture Readings: selection from Adam Kern on Manga, Comicbook Culture and Edo Era Kibyoshi Begin reading: Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland (suggested pp 1-80 week 3) 4 Sep 27 and 29 Culture Paradigms cont., Globalization & Nostalgia Readings: Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, pp. 81-160 by week 4. 5 Oct 4 and 6 Urbanization, Modernization & Internationalization Discussion of Work Culture through 1980s, American influence, and Tokyo Disneyland Readings: Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, last third, pp. 161-240. 6 Oct 11 and 13 Constructing Identity & Otherness, Media Images Readings: For Tues, Oct 11, Painter Article on “Japanese Daytime Television, Popular

Culture, and Ideology. For Thurs, Oct 13, Creighton article on “Imaging the Other in Japanese Advertising Campaigns and Russell article on “Race and Reflexivity: the Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture”.

7 Oct 18 and 20 Gender, Women’s Role, Child-Raising, & Cuteness Readings: For Tuesday, Oct 18, Kinsella article on “Cuties in Japan”.

For Thursday Oct 20, Allison article on “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: the Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus.

Mid-Term Exam (scheduled for Thursday, Oct 27, 2011) 8 Oct 25 and 27 Socialization and Consumerism, Mid-Term Exam Readings: For Tuesday, Oct 25, Creighton article on “Edutaining Children: Consumer and

Gender Socialization in Japanese Marketing” (Required). Creighton article on “The Depato: Merchandising the West While Selling Japaneseness” (Recommended)

Mid-Term exam on Thursday, Oct 27. Begin reading Lukacs book, Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, pp 1-57 9 Nov. 1 and 3 Changing Times, Reconstructions of Identities

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Readings: For Tuesday Nov. 1, Creighton article on “Changing Heart (Beats): From Japanese Identity and Nostalgia to Taiko for Citizens of the Earth” For Thursday, Nov 3, cont. Lukacs, Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, pp 59-89, by weekend 117-175

10 Nov 8 and 10 Popular Films, Television Dramas, and Identity Readings: For Tuesday, Nov 8, complete Lukacs book, pp. 177-209. Readings: For Thursday, Nov. 10, Creighton article on “Japanese Surfing the Korean Wave:

Drama Tourism, Nationalism and Gender via Ethnic Eroticisms.” 11 Nov. 15 and 17 guest lecture/student presentations 12 Nov 22 and 24 student presentations 13 Nov 29 and Dec 1 student presentations and review Readings: Finish all readings Final Exam during Final Examination Period

READINGS Books: Required: —Tsutsui, William. 2010. Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization. Ann Arbor, Michigan:

Assocition for Asian Studies. (Key Issues in Asian Studies, Vol. 6). —Raz, Aviad. 1999. Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland Aviad E. Raz,

Harvard. —Lukacs, Gabriella. 2010. Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and

Capitalism in 1990s Japan. Course Packet Articles: Required: –Kern, Adam L. 2007. “The Kibyoshi: Japan’s Eighteenth-Century Comic Book for Adults.” International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA). 8.1: 3-32. —Painter, Andrew. 1996. “Japanese Daytime Television, Popular Culture, and Ideology,” in Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture, edited by John Whittier Treat, pp. 197-234. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. —Creighton, Millie. 1995. “Imaging the Other in Japanese Advertising Campaigns,” in Occidentalism: Images of the West, edited by James G. Carrier, pp. 135-160. Oxford: Oxford University Press. —Russell, John. 1996. “Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture,” in Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture, edited by John Whittier Treat. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. —Allison, Anne. 1996. “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus,” in Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics and Censorship in Japan. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

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—Kinsella, Sharon. 1995. “Cuties in Japan,” in Women, Media and Consumption in Japan, edited by Lise Skov and Brian Moeran. —Creighton, Millie. 1994. “Edutaining” Children: Consumer and Gender Socialization in Japanese Marketing.” Ethnology 33.1: 35-52. —Creighton, Millie. 2007. “Changing Heart (Beats): From Japanese Identity and Nostalgia to Taiko for Citizens of the Earth,” pp.203-228, edited by Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, and David Hayward. Leiden and Boston: Brill. —Creighton, Millie. 2009. “Japanese Surfing the Korean Wave: Drama Tourism, Nationalism and Gender via Ethnic Eroticisms.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies (SERAS), vol. 31, pp. 10-38. Recommended Readings: —Creighton, Millie. 1992. “The Depato: Merchandising the West While Selling Japaneseness,” in Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society, pp. 42-57, edited by Joseph J. Tobin. New Haven: Yale University Press. --Kern, Adam. 2006. Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan. Cambridge: Harvard. Selected Chapters.