Japanese Popular Culture Lecture Notes

What is Popular Culture?

Birth of Modern Mass Culture

Postwar Pop

Fandom

Mainstream or Underground?

School Daze

Childish Disciplines

Mastering Monsters

Speed

Kawaii as a Concept

Girl Power

Blurring Boundaries

Faith in Technology

Return of the Repressed

Cyborgs

Aaron Kerner's Godzilla Guest Lecture

Cultural Imperialism/Wrapping Up