Selected Bibliography: Introduction

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I. The historical context

Dolan, Ronald E. and Robert L. Worden, eds. Japan: A Country Study. Rederal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1994. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html

Hall, John Whitney, et al., eds. The Cambridge History of Japan, vols. 1-6. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1988.

Hane, Mikiso. Modern Japan: a historical survey. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986.

The Web Kanzaki. Chronology of Japan's Fine Arts. http://www.kanzaki.com/jinfo/jart-fine.html

II. General Works on Japanese Art and Popular Culture

Addiss, Stephen. How to Look at Japanese Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

Amur, Ellis. " Women Warriors of Japan: The role of the Arms-Bearing Women in Japanese History." Journal of Asian Martial Arts, vol. 5, no. 2, 1996.
http://koryubooks.com/library/wwj1.html#History

Buruma, Ian. "Work as a Form of Beauty," from Tokyo: Form and Spirit. New York: Harry N Abrams, 1986. 136-147.

Craig, Timothy J. Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2000.

Dalby, Lisa. "The Parameters of Play."Tokyo: Form and Spirit Spirit. New York: Harry N Abrams, 1986. 200-211.

Guth, Christine. Asobi: Play in the Arts of Japan. Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1992.

Powers, Richard Gid and Hidetoshi Kato, eds. Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Ikegami, Yoshihiko. The Empire of Signs: Semiotic Essays on Japanese Culture. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1991.

Iris 16 (Spring 1993). Special issue: Image Theory, Image Culture, and Contemporary Japan.

Miller, Mara. "Art and the Construction of Self and Subject in Japan" Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice. Roger T. Ames, ed. Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice. SUNY Press, 1998. CR

Pictorial Encyclopedia of Japanese Culture. Tokyo: Gakken, 1987.

Reader, Ian. " For Good Fortune Maneki Neko Beckons". Kansai Time Out. January 1986.

Schilling, Mark. The Encylopedia of Japanese Pop Culture. New York: Weatherhill, 1997.

-------. Schilling, "Popularizing Pop Culture." Japan Quarterly. (Tokyo: July-Sept 1999.) Vol. 46, Iss. 3; pg. 93, 3 pgs.

Smith, Robert J. and Beardsley, Richard K., eds. Japanese Culture: Its Development and Charactersistics. Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing Company, 1962.

Tsuji, Nobuo. "Ornament (kazari)-- An Approach to Japanese Culture." Archives of Asian Art 47 (1994) 35-25.

III. Bibliographies and web guides on Japanese art.

Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/links.html

Japanese Museums. Site maintained by Duke University Library. http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/museums.htm

Popular Culture in Japan. Site maintained by Duke University Library.
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/popculture/guide.htm

Middlebury College Library subject guides.
      Art
      East Asian Studies
      Film and Video
      Japanese

Pioch, Nicholas. "Japanese Art and Architecture." WebMuseum, Paris.
http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/tl/japan/

IV. Introductory theoretical works

Barthes, Roland. Empire of Signs. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: BBC and Penguing Books, 1972.

Braudy, Leo and Marshall Cohen, ed. Film theory and criticsm: introductory readings. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, eds. Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology. New York: Blackwell Pub., 1993.

Innis, Robert E., ed. Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.

K.i.s.s. of the Panopticon. Acultural theory and new media literacy Web site run by Dougie Bicket through the New Media Research Lab at the University of Washington's School of Communications.
http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/panop/home.htm

Marris, Paul, and Sue Thornham, eds. Media Studies: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1996.

Mitchell, W. G. Thomas. Iconology: image, text, ideology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Mirzoff, Nicholas. Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. The Visual Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader. Philip Rosen, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. 198-209.

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Media Centre. (See Directory of Web Sites: Art History/Theory/Museology/Data Banks.) http://media.macm.qc.ca/homea.htm

Perl, Jed. "Seeing and Time" The New Republic. August 3, 1998. pp. 31 - 37

Sontag, Susan. "In Plato’s Cave." On Photography. New York: Doubleday, 1990) 3-24.