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The Culture of Japanese Character Imitation and Parody

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18F18743
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section外国
Research Field Entertainment and game informatics 1
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Karlin Jason  東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 准教授 (80361632)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) FEENEY WILLIAM  東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 外国人特別研究員
Project Period (FY) 2018-11-09 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
KeywordsMedia / Gender / Parody / Violence / Performance / Imitation / popular culture / mass media / imitation
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

This research examines longstanding practices of celebrity impersonation and embodied imitation (monomane) in Japan in order to closely consider the relationship between mass media and social process. Much previous research has tended to approach media process and social process as separate domains of action and focus on the interplay between them. This project seeks to complicate this prevalent approach through an examination of professional and everyday practices of embodied imitation as a site where social and media processes become powerfully enmeshed. Such citational performances turn the body into a medium capable of invoking a host of mediatized personas. In this respect, the primary difference between monomane and other genres of bodily performance is a matter of scale and degree, rather than kind. Bodily performance within monomane becomes a focal point of intertextual aesthetic attention in ways that often go well beyond other genres of performance. At the same time, these same citational acts routinely perform a range of social work within everyday contexts. An examination of the broader social circulations enabled by monomane as a widespread social practice pushes for a reconceptualization of circulation as something that is iterative and takes place in discrete moments of replication by people in everyday contexts in pursuit of their own social goals.

Research Progress Status

令和2年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

令和2年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Report

(3 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • 2019 Annual Research Report
  • 2018 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Idiom2020

    • Author(s)
      William Feeney
    • Journal Title

      The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

      Volume: NA

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Limits of ‘Care’: The Figure of the Complaining Parent in Contemporary Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      William Feeney
    • Organizer
      American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Smiles and Scars2018

    • Author(s)
      William Feeney
    • Organizer
      American Anthropological Association Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2018-11-12   Modified: 2024-03-26  

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