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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. Welcome to the New Real! What Media? Which Mimesis? Why Japan?
  7. Chapter 2. Stereomimesis: Stereograph, Panoramic Parallax, and the 3D Printing of Nostalgia
  8. Chapter 3. Schizoasthenic Media: Record, Reappropriation, and Copyright
  9. Chapter 4. Copycat Rivalries: Teleplay, Mask, and Violence
  10. Chapter 5. Interpassive Ecomimesis: Gaming the Real
  11. Chapter 6. Mediated Expressions: Emoji’s E-mimesis
  12. Conclusion. The Real Renewed: Rendering Techno-orientalism
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. About the Author

About the Author

Jonathan E. Abel is associate professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan.

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges support for the open-access publication of this book from the Department of Asian Studies at Penn State University, with help from the Janssen Family Fund in Asian Studies.

Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Masked Justice: Allegories of the Superhero in Cold War Japan,” Japan Forum 26, no. 2 (2014): 187–208; reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd., http://www.tandfonline.com. Portions of the Conclusion are adapted from “Not Everyone 💩s; or, The Question of Emoji as ‘Universal’ Expression,” in Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age, ed. Elena Giannoulis and Lukas R. A. Wilde, 25–43 (New York: Routledge, 2019); reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa PLC; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center Inc.

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