Azuma, Hiroki,  1971- <br/><br/>
Otaku  Japan's database animals /  [electronic resource] : 
Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono. 
 - [English ed.]. 
 - Minneapolis :  University of Minnesota Press,  c2009. 
 - xxix, 144 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/> "Originally published in Japanese as Dobutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.  Translated from the Japanese. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from  U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA934352  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Subculture--Japan.<br/>Popular culture--Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Civilization--1945-
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN723.5  / .A9513 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306/.10952