Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination / Anne Allison ; foreword by Gary Cross.
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TextSeries: Asia--local studies/global themes ; 13Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006Description: xxii, 332 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN: 0520221486 (hbk.); 9780520221482 (hbk.); 0520245652 (pbk.); 9780520245655 (pbk.)Subject(s): Toys -- Japan | Games -- Japan | Animated films -- Japan | Video games -- Japan | Consumer goods -- Japan | Toy industry -- Japan | Toys -- Japan -- Marketing | Philosophy, Japanese | Japan -- Social life and customs| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 書 | 世新大學圖書館 三樓西文圖書區 | 圖書 | 688.720952 Al 2006 (Browse shelf) | Available | E078648 |
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [i].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.
Enchanted commodities -- From ashes to cyborgs : the era of reconstruction (1945-1960) -- Millennial Japan : intimate alienation and new age intimacies -- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : the first crossover superheroes -- Fierce flesh : sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon -- Tamagotchi : the prosthetics of presence -- Pokémon : getting monsters and communicating capitalism -- "Gotta catch 'em all" : the Pokémonization of America (and the world)
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