Manga in America

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.

ISBN:	9781472595867
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Published date:	28 Jan 2016
DEWEY:	741.59520973
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 214
Weight:	486g
Height:	166mm
Width:	281mm
Spine width:	19mm

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