Description
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. Hiroki Azuma's 'Otaku' offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture.
Author: Hiroki Azuma
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.46w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780816653522
ISBN10: 0816653526
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- History | Asia | Japan
- Social Science | Media Studies
Author: Hiroki Azuma
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.46w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780816653522
ISBN10: 0816653526
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- History | Asia | Japan
- Social Science | Media Studies
About the Author
Hiroki Azuma is codirector of the Academy of Humanities in the Center for the Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A leading cultural critic in Japan, he is the author of seven books, including Ontological, Postal, which won the 2000 Suntory Literary Prize.