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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword: Revisiting “Idology”
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Mirror of Idols and Celebrity
Part I: Systems
1. The Jimusho System: Understanding the Production Logic of the Japanese Entertainment Industry
2. Megaspectacle and Celebrity Transgression in Japan: The Sakai Noriko Media Scandal
3. Through a Looking Glass Darkly: Television Advertising, Idols, and the Making of Fan Audiences
Part II: Desire
4. Johnny’s Idols as Icons: Female Desires to Fantasize and Consume Male Idol Images
5. From Boys Next Door to Boys’ Love: Gender Performance in Japanese Male Idol Media
6. The Homo Cultures of Iconic Personality in Japan: Mishima Yukio and Misora Hibari
Part III: Difference
7. Idol as Accidental Activist: Agnes Chan, Feminism, and Motherhood in Japan
8. Emotions, Desires, and Fantasies: What Idolizing Means for Yon-sama Fans in Japan
Part IV: Image
9. Idols: The Image of Desire in Japanese Consumer Capitalism
10. The Virtual Idol: Producing and Consuming Digital Femininity
Index
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