JAPN 215 - Cool Japan Today
Course Description: This course examines contemporary media culture and products as a conceptual lens to focus on Japanese pop culture and soft power in the 21st Century. Manga, Anime, Cinema, literature, performance art, music, and fine arts will all be surveyed with an eye to understanding what exactly is cool and different about Japanese creative work and whether these kinds of cultural exports could become the foundation of a new post-industrial Japanese economy.
In JAPN 215, I studied many different cultural aspects of Japan and their cool social currency. From Ukiyoe to modern Japanese animation and manga, we learned about multiple facets of Japanese society and what both Japanese people and foreigners deem "cool" aspects of Japanese culture.
At the end of the class we then formed groups and presented an a certain aspect of "cool" Japanese culture that we all liked.
In JAPN 215, I studied many different cultural aspects of Japan and their cool social currency. From Ukiyoe to modern Japanese animation and manga, we learned about multiple facets of Japanese society and what both Japanese people and foreigners deem "cool" aspects of Japanese culture.
At the end of the class we then formed groups and presented an a certain aspect of "cool" Japanese culture that we all liked.
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