Can you write me a 1000-1100 word paper (excluding word limits) for me? Please find the below attachment for the instruction.
The Creative Industries in Contemporary Japan (Spring, 2022) Nobuko Kawashima Essay Assignment Y our paper needs to have a clear ar gument with evidence and support drawn from literature. Y our own research to enrich the ar gument is encouraged, but the paper must directly address one of the given questions. Style in academic writing will also be examined. It will be good to demonstrate your learning by quoting some of the material used during this semester where appropriate.The length: approximately 900 words (800-1,100 words, excluding references, tables, illustrations etc. and any attachments) In writing an essay , choose one of the topics below . Please indicate which one you have chosen at the beginning of the writing. ● As you know , the success of South Korea with its popular culture (film, music and TV drama) in the global market has been phenomenal. Discuss why Japan has not been able to achieve success in similar ways. Suggested books and papers (downloadable from the e-journal portal of the university library webpage) in addition to those distributed in class for essay writing. It will be a good idea to revisit the given material for this course. I suggest some books, but considering that your access to them is not good, you can skip them and have a look at the suggested papers. Hesmondhalgh, David (2019) The Cultural Industries , 4th edition, Sage. (The whole book is relevant to us, with accessible writing style) Throsby , David (2010) The Economics of Cultural Policy , Cambridge University Press. (Not too dif ficult to read, some chapters distributed in the class.) Craig, Tim (2020) Cool Japan. (Case studies of the Japanese creative industries). Galbraith, Patrick W . and Karlin, Jason G. (eds)(2012) Idols and celebrity in Japanese Media Cultur e. Palgrave Macmillan.
For more specific topics: McDonald, Paul and W asko, Janet (eds) (2008) The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry , Blackwell. (*A little outdated, but some very interesting chapters on Hollywood) The following articles may be useful for you. They are downloadable for free if you use VPN. VPN, or V irtual Private Network, is very useful and I recommend you download this software from university’ s website if you have not done so, with which you can access content limited to university students and staf f from home. Connect VPN and access the library’ s portal site for e-journals. T o search on Google Scholar ( h ttp s://s c h ola r.g oogle .c o .j p /) with key words will also be ef ficient, leading to a list of relevant articles. Some of the articles are immediately downloadable, while for others you need to access university e-journals.
Film Crane, D (2014) ‘Cultural Globalization and the Dominance of the American Film Industry: Cultural Policies, National Film Industries, and T ransnational Films’, International Journal of Cultural Policy , V ol. 20, Issue 4. Kawashima, Nobuko (2016) ‘Film Policy in Japan—An Isolated Species on the V er ge of Extinction?’, International Journal of Cultural Policy , 22,5,787-804. Japan’ s creative industries, Japanese cultural policy and international relations KN Otmazgin and N Otmazgin (2012) ‘Japan Imagined: Popular Culture, Soft Power , and Japan’ s Changing Image in Northeast and Southeast Asia’, Contemporary Japan , 24, 1. Otmazgin, N (2012) ‘Geopolitics and Soft Power: Japan’ s Cultural Policy and Cultural Diplomacy in Asia’, Asia-Pacific Review , 19, 1. Otmazgin, N (2014) ‘Anime in the US: The Entrepreneurial Dimensions of Globalized Culture’, Pacific Affairs , 87, 1, 53-69. *Nissim Otmazgin, our guest lecturer , has written numerous articles and chapters in edited books that are relevant to our course. Search his works on Google Scholar . Music Industry Marshall, Lee (2015) ‘Let’ s Keep Music Special. F—Spotify’: on-demand streaming and the controversy over artist royalties. Cr eative Industries Journal , 8, 2, 177-189. Manga, Anime and Games Finan, Dorothy (2021) ‘Idols you can make: The player as auteur in Japan’ s media mix’, New Media & Society , (issue/volume unknown), 1-17. Gon ҁ alves, J. et al (2020) ‘The occidental otaku: Portuguese audience motivations for viewing anime’, Converngence , 27, 1, 247-265. Hartzheim, BH (2019) ‘Making of a Mangaka: Industrial reflexivity and Shueish’ s W eekly Shônen Jump’, T elevision & New Media , 22. 5. 570-587. Klaehn, Jef frey (2021) ‘talking manga: bringing Japanese pop culture to the North American mainstream’, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics , (issue/volume unknown) 1-15. Pellitteri, M (2021) ‘The European experience with Japanese animation, and what it can reveal about the transnational appeal of anime’, Asian Journal of Communication , 31, 1, 21-42. Misc . Feigenbaum, Harvey B (2007) ‘Hegemony or diversity in film and television? The United States, Europe and Japan’, The Pacific Review , 20, 3, 371-396. Korean Popular Culture Y ouna Kim (ed)(2020), The Soft Power of the Korean W ave. Parasite, BTS and Drama. Routledge.
Dal Yong Jin has written a lar ge number of books and articles that you may find helpful.
Also have a look at the paper by Kawashima on the Business Models of the Media Industries (2020) and check out the quoted papers according to your interest. Most of them are not too dif ficult and accessible.