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 Importance of Copying in Japanese Television
In Japanese TV early television to come up with content that looked something like the Lone Ranger and Superman which had been airing on Japanese television. He he's a copy of the Tony you talk of the who they also made a after get go come and got canceled another television show about how do you how do you know. And I think a really, I think also contemporary kind of situation in which we have copying happening outside of the television to that is particularly young kids were felt compelled to cosplay the hero and dress up and wear a mask.
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