Yasar, Kerim. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Patrick Carland-Echavarria Kerim Yasar’s Electrified Voices is a fascinating study of how soundscapes in Japan were transformed by the introduction of audio technologies including the telephone, telegraph, phonograph, and radio […]
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Arsenault, Dominic. Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017. Forrest Greenwood At this juncture, roughly 10 years into the Platform Studies project that Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort initiated within the field of video game studies, it is worth taking […]
Review of Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker (University Press of Mississippi, 2015). By Casey Lee Boys Love (BL) is a by-women-for-women form of male/male homoerotic media originating in Japan. For much of its […]