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A Japanese Mirror Heroes and Villains in Japanese Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

An examination of the popular heroes of Japanese films, comics, theatre and television. It looks at the dual status of women as both goddesses and she-devils, artificiality and transvestism, the role of the samurai and the gangster, and the modern father-figure as an object of ridicule.

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Vintage

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099389217
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.0952
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 242
Weight: 210g
Height: 195mm
Width: 130mm

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