Japanese Popular Culture

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Topics in 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century Japanese history, including legacy of premodern satire in postmodern comic books, American culture in 1930s’ Japanese visual culture, gender in photography, and relationship of monster movies to postwar politics. P/NP or letter grading.