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Calendar

The tables below include the topics covered in each class session as well as the topics of each of the talks students are required to attend.

SES #TOPICSKEY DATES
Week 1: Introduction
1Introduction to the Course
Week 2: Analyzing Japan / Analyzing Popular Culture
2Film Segment: "The Japanese Version"
3The History of Popular Music in Japan
Week 3: Racial Boundaries and Representation in Popular Culture
4Film Segment: "Doubles"
5Race in Japanese Hip-Hop
Week 4: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
6Seminar on "Gender Roles and Anime."

If unable to attend the Seminar, then your Assignment is to Write a 2-page Commentary Contrasting Two of the Assigned Readings (Due by Ses #8). 
7Special Event: "Comfort Women of Korea visit MIT."

If you cannot attend, an additional assignment can be done instead.
Week 5: Identity, Resistance, and Popular Culture: Borders and Crossings
8Japanese Identity: Homogeneity or Difference?Discussion of Essay #1 Assignment
9Methods and Approaches to the Study of Popular CultureEssay #1 Due (5 Pages, Double-Spaced)
Week 6: Manga and Cultural Production
10Harvard Talk
11A Sociology of Cultural Production of Manga
Week 7: Manga and Power
12Metropolis: Fritz Lang to Tezuka to Otomo
13Manga and Social Commentary
Week 8: Manga and Anime
14Harvard Talk
15Who are the Otaku?
Week 9: Assessing Manga as Cultural Form
16In Class Discussion of Manga Issues Re: Essay 2
17Essay #2 Due (5 Pages, Double Spaced)
Week 10: Re-Imagining Japan
18Tradition and Transnationalism
19Flow or Appropriation - Whose Culture is it? (2)
Week 11: Japanese Television
20Student Presentations 1
21Japanese Television
Week 12: Japanese Popular Literature
22Student Presentations 2
23Japanese Popular Literature
Week 13: Crisis and Restructuring
Week 14: Popular Culture and Japan's Future
24Final Paper is Due the Last Day of Class.
There is no Final Exam

 

Schedule of Talks

TALK #SPEAKERTOPICS
1Anne Allison, Duke University (special Popular Culture Series: co-sponsored
with the Program in U.S.-Japan Relations)
Japanese Monsters in the Era of Pokemon Capitalism
2Sydney Brown, Emeritus, University of OklahomaJazz in Japan
3Alisa Freedman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell UniversityDaily Commutes and Evening Dates: Images of Modern Middle Class
Tokyo, 1925-1935
4Gennifer Weisenfeld (Asian Cultural Studies series) Duke UniversityFrom Baby's First Bath: Kao Soap and Japanese Commercial Design
5Laura Miller (special Popular Culture Series) Loyola University of ChicagoThe Naughty Girls of Tokyo: Kogal Fashion, Language and Behavior
6Theodore Bestor (special Popular Culture Series) Harvard UniversityThe Americanization of Sushi

 








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