2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
The Culture of Japanese Character Imitation and Parody
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18F18743
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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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)
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| 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
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-11-09 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Media / Gender / Parody / Violence |
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| 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.
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| Research Progress Status |
令和2年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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| 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。
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