Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics
Casey Brienza, "Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics"
English | ISBN: 1472595874 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1472595874 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Japanese comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have "invaded" and "conquered" the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture challenging American hegemony in the twenty-first century.
In Manga in America - the first ever book-length study of the history, structure, and practices of the American manga publishing industry - Casey Brienza explodes this assumption. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews with industry insiders about licensing deals, processes of translation, adaptation, and marketing, new digital publishing and distribution models, and more, Brienza shows that the transnational production of culture is an active, labor-intensive, and oft-contested process of "domestication." Ultimately,
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