JAPN 330 - Japanese Popular Culture

Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI

This course examines the wide range of representations within the realm of modern Japanese popular culture, with an emphasis on the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These representations include novels, films, anime, and manga. Instead of viewing “culture” as a discrete object of analysis, we understand it as a historically constituted, inherently political, and potentially subversive category and consider how the study of popular culture enables us to deepen our understanding of Japanese society.