Overview
- Brings to light an often overlooked chapter in Global Media culture
- Illustrates ways in which the United States serves not only as an exporter of popular media, displacing other countries’ own cultural products, but also a site of external transformation as well
- Details decades of transformation via interdisciplinary methods
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Japanese Influence on American Children’s Television examines the gradual, yet dramatic, transformation of Saturday morning children’s programming from being rooted in American traditions and popular culture to reflecting Japanese popular culture. In this modern era of globalization and global media/cultural convergence, the book brings to light an often overlooked phenomenon of the gradual integration of narrative and character conventions borrowed from Japanese storytelling into American children’s media. The book begins with a brief history of Saturday morning in the United States from its earliest years, and the interaction between American and Japanese popular media during this time period. It then moves onto reviewing the dramatic shift that occurred within the Saturday morning block through both an overview of the transitional decades as well as an in-depth analysis of the transformative ascent of the shows Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Pokémon,and Yu-Gi-Oh!.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gina O’Melia received a PhD in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, USA and is currently an adjunct professor at the Division of Social Sciences at Hudson County Community College, USA. Her research currently involves cultural transition and convergence, especially between the United States and Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Influence on American Children's Television
Book Subtitle: Transforming Saturday Morning
Authors: Gina O’Melia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17416-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17415-6Published: 23 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17418-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17416-3Published: 11 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Culture , American Culture, Asian Culture, Animation, Film/TV Industry