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Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

New Books in East Asian Studies

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The New Real Media and Mimesis in Japan From Stereographs to Emoji

Dr. Abel: I first started thinking about questions of media in Japan a long time ago before I went to grad school. He spent three years making Japanese TV commercials in New York, which is basically producing short 35 millimeter films at a high budget. And that was sort of my first interaction with the Japanese media world and then kind of been teaching film in various ways ever since grad school.

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