Reproducing and Challenging the Maternal Fantasy : Representations of Single Mothers in Japanese Television Drama, 2005-2014

Mithani, Forum

doi:10.25501/SOAS.00032268

All Outputs (4)

Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019 (2022)
Thesis
Stolyar, J. Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

For years Japanese media, and in particular television, was ‘self-sufficient’. Local productions took up most of the broadcasting schedule on open channels, and foreign content was limited in amount and mainly broadcast on cable and satellite. The in... Read More about Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019.

From score to song — The rise of the 'star composer' and the role of music in contemporary anime (2022)
Thesis
Green, L. From score to song — The rise of the 'star composer' and the role of music in contemporary anime. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

From the late 1980s onward, Japanese animation (anime) has increasingly been consumed as a ‘global’ product, with iconic films such as Akira and Ghost in the Shell achieving cult-like status on both the art-cinema circuit as well as via home-video... Read More about From score to song — The rise of the 'star composer' and the role of music in contemporary anime.

Examining representations of the Ainu as 'other' in contemporary Japanese visual culture (2019)
Thesis
Kameda, Y. Examining representations of the Ainu as 'other' in contemporary Japanese visual culture. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Reproducing and Challenging the Maternal Fantasy : Representations of Single Mothers in Japanese Television Drama, 2005-2014 (2019)
Thesis
Mithani, F. Reproducing and Challenging the Maternal Fantasy : Representations of Single Mothers in Japanese Television Drama, 2005-2014. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Single motherhood, an increasing phenomenon in Japan, nevertheless continues to be maligned for its association with poverty and deviation from the idealised middle-class, two-parent family based on the male breadwinner/female homemaker model. Theori... Read More about Reproducing and Challenging the Maternal Fantasy : Representations of Single Mothers in Japanese Television Drama, 2005-2014.