商標化される国名 : 文化資本としてのオリエンタルなジャパン
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概要
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In recent years, there has been an upsurge of academic and media interest in transnational cultural flows originating from regions not previously considered cultural cores. The attention directed at the circulation of Japanese popular culture products is a case in point. It is interesting that despite the transnational nature of cultural production and consumption, not to mention a general absence of what, according to stereotyped visions of Japan, could be termed 'culturally Japanese elements' in the products in question, the circulation of these popular culture goods is frequently narrated in terms of national economies and national cultures. This paper argues that this is largely due to the fact that most writers take as their point of departure the view that Japan has historically been a cultural backwater in the global cultural economy. In other words, it is because of their national frame of reference that they position the case of contemporary cultural flows originating in Japan not only as a phenomenon requiring interrogation, but also as one calling for explanation in national terms. The paper considers the manner in which these popular culture goods, with strong hi-tech or virtual connotations, and the discourses surrounding them, are complicit in the making of a stereotyped image of an 'ultra-modern Japan', and suggests that these processes might more profitably be re-examined in terms of how states and cultural products are articulated in the global cultural economy.
- 聖トマス大学の論文
- 2005-02-28