2017
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
Editors Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade
Routledge
Specifically designed for use on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production, as well as, politics, society, and economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it.
With contributions from an international team of scholars, representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to art history and media studies, the book’s sections include:
Television
Videogames
Music
Popular Cinema
Anime
Manga
Popular Literature
Fashion
Contemporary Art
Written in an accessible style by a stellar line-up of international contributors, this textbook will be essential reading for students of Japanese culture and society, Asian media and popular culture, and Asian Studies in general.
2009
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History
Berg Publishers
Toby Slade
Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example. From the awkward Edwardian tailcoats and the bustle dresses of the 1870s first encounters with Western clothes, to the suave and chic modern boys and flapperesque modern girls, of 1920s and 1930s, the story of modern Japanese fashion is as fascinating as it is unique. It is in this remarkably idiosyncratic aesthetic history that is the foundation for the distinct and revolutionary styles of the Japanese designers and myriad subcultures of today. The book is unique in that it provides the first full history of the last two hundred years of Japanese clothing and is unique in including Asian fashion as part of global fashion and a necessary and important part of fashion theory. It adds a hitherto absent continuity to the understanding of historical and current fashion in Japan. And it is pioneering in offering possible theories to account for that entire history and commenting on how that entire history changes our understanding of the way fashion works.
2019
Crossing Gender Boundaries:Fashion to Create, Disrupt, and Transcend
Chapter: Cute Men in Japan
Editors Andrew Reilly and Ben Barry
University of Chicago Press
2017
Journal of Japanese Studies
Review: E. Taylor Atkins, A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present.
Society of Japanese Studies: University of Washington Press
2018
NACT Review
Chapter: Kasuma Yayoi: Fashion and Abstraction
National Art Center, Tokyo
2017
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
Chapter: Cute Fashion: The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii
Editors Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade
Routledge
2016
Modern Fashion Traditions: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity Through Fashion
Chapter: Neither East nor West: Japanese Fashion in Modernity
Editors M. Angela Jansen and Jennifer Craik
Bloomsbury
2015
The Power of Fashion
Paper: Kawaii: Cute Fashions and the Pleasures of Irony in Japan
International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes
2015
Japanese Studies, Vol 35, Issue 1.
Review: Jordan Sand, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects.
Routledge
2015
Japanese Studies, Vol 35, Issue 1.
Review: Andrew Gordon, Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan, Found Objects
Routledge
2014
Fashion Theory, Volume 18 Issue 4.
Review: Michael Carter, Overdressed: Barthes, Darwin and the Clothes that Speak.
Bloomsbury
2014
Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopaedia
Chapter: Tabi
Edited by Annette Lynch and Mitchell D.Strauss
Rowman & Littlefield
2014
Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopaedia
Chapter: Haori
Edited by Annette Lynch and Mitchell D.Strauss
Rowman & Littlefield
2014
Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopaedia
Chapter: Happi
Edited by Annette Lynch and Mitchell D.Strauss
Rowman & Littlefield
2013
Australian Economic History Review Volume 53 Issue 3.
Review: Penelope Francks and Janet Hunter, eds,
The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000.
Wiley Publishing Asia and the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
2013
Feel & Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion
Principle Catalogue Essay:
Duelling Beauties in Japanese Fashion: The Deep Roots of a New Era
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation & National Art School
2013
Art and Australia Volume 50 No. 5 Spring 2013
Review: Feel and Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion
Art & Australia, Paddington, NSW
2012
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 67 Number 2
Review: Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts 1868-2000
Sophia University
2012
Fashion the Whole Story
Chapter: Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
Quarto Publishing, Editor Katharina Hahn
2012
Fashion the Whole Story
Chapter: Japan—The Edo Period (1603–1863)
Quarto Publishing, Editor Katharina Hahn
2011
The Berg Fashion Encyclopedia
Chapter: Japanese Sartorial Modernity
Oxford University Press, Editor Joanne Eicher
2011
Samurai.jp Genuine Japan
Chapter: From Kimono to Outrageous Street Styles
Samurai.jp Association, Editors Daisuke Saito
2010
The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives
Chapter: The Japanese Consumer
Routledge, Editors Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil
2009
The Men’s Fashion Reader
Chapter: The Japanese Suit and Modernity
Berg Publications, Editors Peter McNeil and Vicki Karaminas
2009
Fashion in Fiction
Chapter: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s Naomi and the Power of Foreign Clothing in Early Modern Japanese Fiction
Berg Publications, Editors Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas and Catherine Cole
Routledge, Editors Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil
2009
Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence
Chapter: Alternative Fashion Histories: Sartorial Modernity in East Asia
Melbourne University Press, Editor Jaynie Anderson