Intimate televisuality : television dramas and the Tarento in postwar Japan -- Imaged away : agency and fetishism in trendy drama production and reception -- Dream labor in the dream factory : capital and authorship in drama production -- What's love got to do with it? Love dramas and branded selves -- Labor fantasies in recessionary Japan : employment as lifestyle in workplace dramas of the 1990s -- Private globalization : bootleggers, fansubbers, and the transnational circulation of J-dorama
Summary
Focused on a highly popular Japanese TV genre (the "trendy drama"), Lukacs offers an ethnography of the Japanese TV industry and Japanese consumer culture that shows how these entities were transformed in the 1990s and into the present
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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