Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies: Home

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Some Titles on Various Topics at Tisch Library:

• The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts
• The National Archives of Japan
• New York Public Library Picture Collection
• New York Public Library Web Gallery of Images

• ARTstor (over a million high quality images)
• Japan Search (links digital archives in the publications, cultural properties, and media arts fields of varying of contents preserved by Japanese institutions and organizations into a searchable “national, integrated and cross-sectoral portal website.)

Charles Inouye

• The End of the World, Plan B: a Guide for the Future

• Evanescence and form: an introduction to Japanese culture

• "Unburying Figurality: Japan's Contribution to the Globalgothic," in Glennis Byron, ed., Globalgothic.

• "Japanese Gothic," in David Punter, ed., New Companion to the Gothic

• In light of shadows: more gothic tales by Izumi Kyōka; translated and with essays by Charles Shirō Inouye

Hosea Hirata

• Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature.

• The poetry and poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburō: modernism in translation

Susan Napier

• Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: experiencing contemporary Japanese animation.

• From Impressionism to anime: Japan as fantasy and fan cult in the mind of the West.

• Hybrid identities: Ôe, Japan, and the West

• Miyazakiworld: a life in art

Databases for Journal Articles 

• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• Art & Architecture Source
• ATLA Religion
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Communication & Mass Media
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Historical Abstracts (Cultural history of the world)
• LGBTQ+ Source
• MLA International Bibliography (Literature, folklore and related studies)
• Women's Studies International

Selected Journals

• Artibus Asiae
• Ars Orientalis
• Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
• Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
• Japan Review
• Japanese journal of religious studies
• The Journal of Japanese Studies
• Journal of Popular Culture
• Mechademia
• Monumenta Nipponica
• Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique
• Camera Obscura
• Cinema Journal
• Discourse
• Film & History
• Film History
• Film Quarterly
• Framework
• Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television
• Journal of Film and Video
• Journal of Popular Film & Television
• The Movie Image
• PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
• Projections
• Quarterly Review of Film and Video
• Screen
• The Velvet Light Trap
• Wide Angle

Newspaper Articles 

• Access World News (rich regional news)
• Factiva (more international news)
• More