Bad Girls of Japan
Bad Girls of Japan

Author: L. Miller

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-12-09

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1403977127

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Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? The authors in this volume propose shifts in our perceptions of bad girls by providing new ways to understand them through the case of Japan. By tracing the concept of the bad girl as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. Bad Girls of Japan explores deviancy in richly diverse media: mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

Glamour Girls of Tokyo
Glamour Girls of Tokyo

Author: Stephen Pentacoste

Publisher: Deicide Press

Published: 2016-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781840686753

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In the 1960s, erotic nude photography became increasingly prevalent in the civilized world, with European countries such as Denmark and France leading the way with ever-more daring and artistic publications. In Asia, Japan was at the forefront of this new pictorial erotica, its ban on images of public hair leading to a unique style which fetishized uniforms, panties, and other accoutrements. The emergent popularity of sex films by directors such as Koji Wakamatsu helped to push such material into the mainstream. GLAMOUR GIRLS OF TOKYO contains over 100 stunning and provocative photographs from vintage Japanese men's magazines at the forefront of classic erotic photography. Starring 10 nude Tokyo model girls, and with 16 pages in full color.

Tokyo in Transit
Tokyo in Transit

Author: Alisa Freedman

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0804771456

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This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism.

Nickey Valentine
Nickey Valentine

Author: Patrick White

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-05-26

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0595280153

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Gangsters, Godfathers, hit men and dons. A trillion dollar mafia company business, where a man's code of honor and his word are everything. Come step inside and learn the secret of the murder of East Coast mafia kingpin, Zing Rizzotto, and why the mob is searching for a black man. Patrick White is given a special necklace and ring from a very powerful man. What does the ring mean, and why is he protected? Eventually, he becomes NICKEY TONY VALENTINE, one of Hollywood's richest and most famous international stars.

Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood
Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood

Author: Tom Lisanti

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1476612412

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During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become "decorative actresses" appearing scantily clad on film and television. This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories through individual biographical profiles, photographs, lists of major credits and, frequently, in-depth personal interviews. Included are Carol Wayne, Edy Williams, Inga Neilsen, Thordis Brandt, Jo Collins, Phyllis Davis, Melodie Johnson, and many equally unforgettable faces of sixties Hollywood.

The Art of Reception
The Art of Reception

Author: Jacobus Bracker

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-03-05

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1527567044

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This book deals with processes of reception in visual arts. Images (in the broadest sense) from different cultures and times are examined. The volume focuses on two key interpretations of reception. On the one hand, reception is understood as a concept of repetition and revision spanning different cultures and time periods. On the other hand, reception is also seen as the process of perceiving images. Both ways of understanding can be described by the metaphor of migration of images: in the first case, images migrate from one medium to another; in the second case, they migrate from the artefact into the human body. The contributions to this volume cover a variety of approaches coming from different disciplines such as Ancient Oriental philology, English and American studies, classical studies, classical archaeology, communication studies, cultural studies, art history, aesthetics, literature, media studies, philosophy, journalism, Romance studies, sociology, Near Eastern archaeology, prehistory, and classical studies.

90 Day Geisha
90 Day Geisha

Author: Chelsea Haywood

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 163936000X

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An introspective journey into the glamorous world—and temptations—of Japanese nightlife, by former model Chelsea Haywood. The hard-drinking, drug-taking, all-night culture that dominates Tokyo’s Roppongi district can be a surreal place. Overworked Japanese business men will pay handsomely for the services of a hostess—someone to talk to, someone to provide hot towels and drinks, and sometimes just a companion with whom to sing karaoke with all night. Intrigued by rumors of this strange subculture and armed with her 90-day work visa and new husband, Matt, Chelsea throws herself into the lion’s den. Yet what she discovers about herself and about the inhabitants of this nocturnal life far exceeds her expectations. Hostessing, she comes to find, has “very little to do with sex, quite a lot to do with psychology, and nothing to do with prostitution.” Her personality and conversation skills are her top commodity, and Chelsea quickly finds herself charmed by these billionaire men, many of whom are funny, intelligent, even kind, and often, very lonely. But as she becomes more and more attached to her clients, Chelsea soon finds herself getting burned at her own game, as the endless presents, compliments, and destructive atmosphere of alcohol and drugs threaten to take both her marriage, and her sanity, to the edge.

Maiko Masquerade
Maiko Masquerade

Author: Jan Bardsley

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0520296435

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Maiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto’s classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show pride in the training, challenges, and rewards maiko face. No longer viewed as a toy for men’s amusement, she serves as catalyst for women’s consumer fun. This change inspires stories of ordinary girls—and even one boy—striving to embody the maiko ideal, engaging in masquerades that highlight questions of personal choice, gender performance, and national identity.