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Hi Nina, If you're exploring shojo then it may be useful to have a look at some of these texts: Allison, Anne (2000) Permitted & Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics and Censorship in Japan: University of California Press. Allison, Anne (2006) Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination: University of California Press. [particularly chapter 5 on Sailor Moon] Miller, Laura and Jan Bardsley (eds) (2005) Bad Girls of Japan: Palgrave Macmillan. Napier, Susan (2007) From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West: Palgrave Macmillan [Chapter 6 on cosplay could be relevant] Other texts that I thought could of some more general relevance are: Harris, Anita (2004) Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty First Century: Routledge Hopkins, Susan (2002) Girl Heroes: The New Force in Popular Culture: Pluto Press. Good luck with the article. It sounds very interesting Kind Regards, Adam Stapleton On 8/13/09, Zimnik Nina (zini) <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > oh my. I just took two days off from the film festival in Locarno to make > some headway on this Hannah Montana article that I have been meaning to > write this summer. The Pardo places a focus on Mangas and animes. I have > seen a lot of that lately. Thank you very very much for pointing me to a > take on the representation of girls in that field! as an aside: you may know > that the anime industry is dominated by men. I mean aside from Japan`s > leading tax payer, a woman who composes film music for these animes, there > are no women in power positions. they draw, they reach mid-echelons etc. We > are not in an American gender-conscious environment. -- at the Round-Table > three days ago, the main men from the industry were gathered there, e.g. the > director of 12 Pokemons, heads of the studios. A woman from Swiss Films > popped the gender question : where are the women? meaning : here at the > table and in the films? well, despite the porn, despite the fact that animes > are rooted in boy culture, there are strong female figures that girls > identify with. But not mine. None of her girlfriends like to watch the > Japanese cartoons that we can watch on TV. I do not know why. They prefer > Hannah Montana. > Tomino, who received the Golden Leopard, was so refreshing. He said, oh, you > know, we just make up these women. They are not women I would ever hope to > conquer myself (imagine his Japanese giggle). He is old, a towering figure > of the genre. Still, I cannot think of a man from my Euro-US walks of life > who would have unabashedly admitted to such projections, to the joy he finds > in them. > > ------------------------------------ > Dr. Nina Zimnik > Dozentin ISBB Kommunikation Deutsch > ZHAW (Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) > Departement Angewandte Linguistik > Büronummer SF 03.09 > Theaterstrasse 17, Postfach > CH-8401 Winterthur > tel. (+41) 77 207 2896 (from abroad) > 077 207 2896 > > ________________________________ > > Von: Film-Philosophy Salon im Auftrag von Botz- Bornstein > Gesendet: Do 13.08.2009 15:21 > An: [log in to unmask] > Betreff: Re: Hannah Montana / stardom / girls`studies > > > I would look at Japanese shojo (young girl) culture. A lot of the phenomena > mentioned have been theorized there. Hjorth 2003, John W Treat 1996, Sharon > Kinsella's "Cuties in Japan" will be useful for the beginning. > Cheers > Thorsten > > > ____________________________________________ > Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Ph.D., habil. > Assistant Professor of Philosophy > Gulf University for Science and Technology > Philosophy, Block 5, Building 1 > Mubarak Al-Abdullah Area/West Mishef > KUWAIT > Website: http://www.freewebs.com/botzbornstein/ > <http://www.freewebs.com/botzbornstein/> > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Votre correspondant a choisi Hotmail et profite d'un stockage quasiment > illimité. 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