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    612-822-4611

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Manga in America

Manga in America

Brienza, Casey

Hardcover

Literary CriticismBusiness of WritingGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1472595866
ISBN13: 9781472595867
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 28 2016
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Japanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have invaded and conquered the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture challenging American hegemony in the twenty-first century.

In Manga in America - the first ever book-length study of the history, structure, and practices of the American manga publishing industry - Casey Brienza explodes this assumption. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews with industry insiders about licensing deals, processes of translation, adaptation, and marketing, new digital publishing and distribution models, and more, Brienza shows that the transnational production of culture is an active, labor-intensive, and oft-contested process of domestication. Ultimately, Manga in America argues that the domestication of manga reinforces the very same imbalances of national power that might otherwise seem to have been transformed by it and that the success of Japanese manga in the United States actually serves to make manga everywhere more American.

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