Week
1 - Course introduction
Week 2
- Introduction to popular culture studies
Week 3
- “Aidoru” culture: Japanese Television
and Popular Music
Week 4
- Takarazuka: performing gender and ethnicity
Week 5
- Otaku culture
Week 6
- Japanese hip-hop, race, and subcultures
Week 7
- The aesthetics of anime: movements and morphs
Week 8
- Japanese popular culture and globalization
Week 9
- Viral media: J-horror and millennial anxiety
Week 10
- New media: theory and debates
Week 11
- Mobile media
Week 12
- Cyborg subjectivity
Week 13
- Gaming cultures; course wrap-up
Week 14
- Posters |