Law and justice in Japanese popular culture from crime fighting robots to duelling pocket monsters / edited by Ashley Pearson, Thomas Giddens and Kieran Tranter.
| Other author | Pearson, Ashley. |
| Other author | Giddens, Thomas. |
| Other author | Tranter, Kieran. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. |
| Description | xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Crime fighting robots and duelling pocket monsters: law and justice in Japanese popular culture / Ashley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran Tranter -- Possibilities of justice. The symptoms of the just: psycho-pass, judg(e)ment, and the asymptomatic commons / Daniel Hourigan -- Pirates, giants and the state: legal authority in manga and anime / James C Fisher -- Traumatic origins in Hart and Ringu / Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk -- Justice in the sea of corruption: nausica©Þ as ecological jurisprudence / Thomas Giddens -- Masterful trainers and villainous liberators: law and justice in Pok©♭mon black and white / Dale Mitchell -- The legal subject. Doing right in the world with 100,000 horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), essence, posthumanity and techno-humanism / Kieran Tranter -- Caught in couture: regulating clothing and the body in Kill la kill / Rosie Taylor-Harding -- Holy trans-jurisdictional representations of justice, Batman!: globalisation, persona and mask in Kuwata's Batmanga and Morrison's Batman, Incorporated / Tim Peters -- The power and problem of the image. "Finding the law" through creating and consuming gay manga in Japan: from heteronormativity to queer activism / Thomas Baudinette -- Regulating counterpublics in Yaoi online fan communities / Scott Beattie -- "Is Yaoi illegal?!": let's get real about the potential criminalisation of yaoi / Hadeel al-Alosi -- Constitutional analysis of secondary works in Japan: from Otaku to the world / Yuichiro Tsuji -- Specificities of law and justice in everyday Japan. "The world is rotten": execution and power in death note and the Japanese capital punishment system / Ashley Pearson -- Debts, family, and identity after the collapse of the bubble: Miyabe Miyuki's All she was worth / Giorgio Fabio Colombo -- Rules and unruliness in manga depictions of community police boxes / Richard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki -- The image-characters of criminal justice in Tokyo / Peter D. Rush and Alison Young. |
| General note | "A GlassHouse Book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018011381 |
| ISBN | 9781138300262 (hbk) |
| ISBN | (ebk) |
| ISBN | ebook |