Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America

by Andrew C. McKevitt

Book Overview

This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post-World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469634473
• ISBN13: 9781469634470
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"