Popular Literature

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Book … or movie?

or comic?

or graphic novel? …or movie

or manga ?

Pop Lit = mass market

• Romance novels • Westerns • Mysteries• Horror • Science Fiction• manga

Popular? In 2007…

• Romance novels $1.4 billion• Westerns • Mysteries• Horror • Science Fiction• Manga = $ 380 billion !! in Japan alone

Enthymeme: Latin enthymema, from Greek enthymēma, from enthymeisthai to keep in mind, from en- + thymos mind, soul [1552] The premise is implicit. “Many of this culture’s most potent enthymemes, e.g. those of advertisers and others who would influence the masses . . .” (Rhetoric and civility: human development, narcissism, and the good audience By Harold Barrett, 1991)

What is ‘popular’ both molds & reflects “the masses” . . . What aspect of videogames’ impact do you want to examine this quarter? Game on…

Credits Fallout 3. Bethesda 2009GTA Gay Tony. Rockstar 2009Ivy. Soulcalibur. Namco 2008Moore, Alan & Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. DC Comics 1986-

87 (12 issues)Takeuchi, Naoko. Sailor Moon 美少女戦士セーラームーン

Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn 1992-1997