[Asianmedia] Fwd: Densha Otoko; Masculinity and Otakudom in the 21st Century Japan Lecture

[John C. Watson]

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----- "UMass Anime" <umass.anime at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greeting, Members of the Anime Club,
> I am forwarding this email to you, in hopes that some of you might be
> interested in attending this lecture.
> While Professor Baird has included some links to some information, I
> thought that I might also include a link to one of the manga, if you
> were so inclined to read it.
> http://www.onemanga.com/Densha_Otoko/
> I hope that you might be intrigued, and will attend!
> Christiane Leger
> UMAMC Webmaster
> 
> <quote>
> Dear Manga and Anime Club Officers,
> 
> I would like to invite you to the next Five College Japan Lecture
> featuring Susan Napier, and I would appreciate it if you could
> forward this along to your listserve.
> 
> Susan Napier, Tufts University, Monday April 13th at 5:30 PM
> 133 School of Management, UMass
> “Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity and Otakudom in
> 21st
> Century Japan.�
> 
> This lecture will specifically focus on Densha Otoko (Train Man),
> which has been expended into five different manga, as well as other
> media such as TV shows, and a movie.
> 
> If you don't already know about Densha Otoko, you can familiarize
> yourself with the phenomenon by looking at an extensive article on
> Wikipedia which has links to the archives of the original 2Channel
> internet forum in both Japanese and English translation.  Also there
> are entire episodes from the made-for-TV version available (split up
> into 10 minute clips) on Youtube.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densha_Otoko
> 
> http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway-Aquarius/7075/trainman.html
> 
> http://www.rinji.tv/densha/
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46fmLF2sTIE
> 
> 
> Looking forward to seeing you.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bruce
> 
> PS.  I am enclosing a flier for the talk in pdf format.  Feel free to
> pass it along.
> 
> Bruce Baird
> Assistant Professor
> Asian Languages and Literatures
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History
> 
> 717 Herter Hall
> 161 Presidents Drive
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> Amherst, MA 01003-9312
> Phone: 413-577-4992
> Fax: 413-545-4975
> baird at asianlan.umass.edu
> </quote>

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Ciao,
     John C. Watson