Millennial monsters
Subtitle: Japanese toys and the global imagination
By: Anne Allison ; foreword by Gary Cross.
Series: Asia--local studies/global themes ;; 13
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enchanted commodities; title: From ashes to cyborgs : the era of reconstruction (1945/1960); title: Millennial Japan : intimate alienation and new age intimacies; title: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : the first crossover superheroes; title: Fierce flesh : sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon; title: Tamagotchi : the prosthetics of presence; title: Pokømon : getting monsters and communicating capitalism; title: "Gotta catch 'em all" : the pokømonization of America (and the world).