Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
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The Importance of Being a Madam Butterfly
During this time, the Japanese culture industry is also scratching its head at. And so they're getting frustrated. They start binding together and thinking about how they can control the situation which is kind of getting out of hand in their minds. At that during that time, you're is asked by a small filmmaker who's a dentist to sing madam butterfly as the soundtrack for the film. She does that but then they realize that they might get in trouble and the film may never be able to be shown because of it. So she writes her own version of madam butterfly for this film so the copyright issues kind of create the role to be more creative and to come up with something else and
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