Source Analysis: Bill Brown, “Waging Baseball, Playing War”

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Bill Brown’s article “Waging Baseball, Playing War: Games of American Imperialism” is a pretty interesting read. He briefly traces some of the American global baseball tours of the early twentieth century, and also how the Japanese used baseball in 1914 as a tool to colonize the island of Truk, a Japanese colony in the Caroline…

BoRT 3

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Extended play-There has been one experience I’ve had with gaming where it ended up bleeding into my day to day life. About seven years ago I went to Seattle for Thanksgiving to visit family. I have a cousin who is about a year younger than me and he was currently experiencing an obsession over the…

Final Paper Source

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One of the primary sources I am using outlines a study done on the effects of the sexualization of female video game characters on gender-stereo types as well as female self- image in young adults. The results of the study CATIOUTSLY suggest that the image of women was warped after playing a game with an…

Millennial Montsters

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Let me just start off by saying, this book was great! I really enjoyed how accesible it was for someone who has not grown up with these elements of popular culture. There were a few themes throughout the book that we had explored in earlier readings. Elements like cultral scent, and the cuteness vs. coolness…

Millennial Monsters

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So I was super pumped to read this weeks reading and I was not disappointed with Anne Allison’s work at all. I loved what she wrote about and the way she wrote about it. The two topics that stuck out to me was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Sailor Moon. Both shows are from my childhood and…

Introduction to Source

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I do believe that I am changing my topic into just the generic topic of violence in video games and how it becoming a more violent approach (not in a preaching form of video games need to change). A main source I am using is Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto. GTA has a…

Millennial Monsters RR

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My interest for this week was actually about Gojira, or Godzilla as we know him in America. Gojira actually had a purpose in postwar Japan other than just being entertainment. Since America was still sensitive about World War II and created an agreement for Japan to be against emperor-power (in a way), Gojira was a…

A Pokemon is You!

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Allison’s book provided a lot of nice detail, theory, and research regarding a topic I’ve been both actively and passively exposed to over the years. Naturally, being a Japan studies guy, I have a lot of experience with many of the ideas of Japan’s post-war economic and cultural transformation(s). On top of that I have…

Little Shop of Horrors

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How much would you pay for an item that you always wanted? Hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars, more? Would you compete and fight for it with someone who you have never met before? Well, this is what thousands of people do every day on EBay and other auctions sites. Baseball cars, furniture, music, whatever…

Reading Response, Anne Allison

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Millennial Monsters by Anne Allison was far more enlightening about Japanese culture than I thought it was. From the title, a little bit of talking to Patrick, I assumed that it would be discussing Pokémon and similar games but it really delved into imported culture from Japan as a whole, as opposed to just mentioning…