Pink Globalization

Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific

Autor: Christine Reiko Yano

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Duke University Press

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In Pink Globalization, Christine Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Jap...

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Autor

Christine Reiko Yano

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2013

strony

336

EAN

9780822353515

ISBN

0822353512

Enbook ID

04939643

Wydawca

Duke University Press

Waga

594

Wymiary

160 x 234 x 25

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In Pink Globalization, Christine Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization - the spread of goods and images labelled cute (kawaii) from Japan to other parts of the industrial world. The concept of pink globalization connects the expansion of Japanese companies to overseas markets, enhanced distribution of Japanese products, and the rise of Japan's national cool (as suggested by the spread of manga and anime). She analyses the changing complex of relations and identities surrounding the global reach of Hello Kitty's cute culture, discussing the responses of both ardent fans and virulent detractors. Through interviews, Yano shows how consumers use this iconic cat to negotiate gender, nostalgia, and national identity. She demonstrates that pink globalization allows the foreign to become familiar as it brings together the intimacy of cute and the distance of cool. Hello Kitty and her entourage of marketers and consumers assert a new global wink that nods giddily to innocence, sexuality, irony, sophistication, and even sheer happiness. Yano reveals the edgy power in this wink and the ways it can overturn, or at least, challenge power structures.

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