Birkbeck, University of London, MA, Japanese Cultural Studies
Core modules: Key issues in Japanese cultural studies/creative industries; research skills course; dissertation of 15,000 words; plus 3 options from a range of choices including: theory and practice of Japanese creative industries studies; east eats west: food culture in modern Japan; memory, history, media: representations of 20th century East Asian past(s) in popular culture; narrating the nation: the modern novel in Japan; orientalism and (no) beyond? Japan in European writing, film and media after 1945; occidental desire: race and the representation of the west in contemporary Japan; Of Japanese descent: Japanese communities and identity outside Japan; gender discourse in East Asia: nationalism and transnational feminist politics in East Asia; men and masculinities in contemporary East Asia; gender discourse in Japan: issues in Japanese feminism; gender and sexuality in contemporary Japanese fiction; modernity and identity in Japanese art, craft and design 1868–1945; contemporary Japanese art, craft, and design (since 1945): establishment and dissemination of 'Japanese-style'.
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