Asian popular culture / edited by John A. Lent.

Other author Lent, John A.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder : Westview Press, 1995.
Descriptionviii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesInternational communication and popular culture
International communication and popular culture. ^A326292
Contents "Hey, we equatorial people" : popular music and contemporary society in Malaysia / Craig A. Lockard -- Music culture in Singapore : record companies, retailers, and performers / Alan Wells and Lee Chun Wah -- Thai cassettes and their covers : two case histories / Deborah Wong -- Blood, brothers, and Hong Kong gangster movies : pop culture commentary on "One China" / Barbara Ryan -- Southeast Asia pop art : the movie billboard / John A. Lent -- Mr. Atomic, Mr. Mercury, and Chime Trooper : Japan's answer to the American dream / Ron Tanner -- Coffee shop culture : days in the life of Manila's gossip mill / Antonio Lopez -- Cartooning in Sri Lanka : a precarious tightrope act / Leonard Rifas -- Sexism in Japanese weekly comic magazines for men / Kinko Ito -- Sanmao : classic cartoons and Chinese popular culture / Mary Ann Farquhar -- Immortal picture-stories : comic art in early Indian art / Aruna Rao -- Moving art galleries of South and Southeast Asia / John A. Lent -- Modern Malay folklore : the humor magazines / Ronald Provencher -- Crossing ethnolinguistic boundaries : a preliminary look at the Gaijin Tarento in Japan / Laura Miller -- Pachinko, Japan's national pastime / Elizabeth Kiritani
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 94045530
ISBN0813320488 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813320496 (pbk.: alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DS12 .A7355 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold