A cure for woundless pain

IF 0.5 Q4 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Pub Date : 2021-10-08 DOI:10.1075/japc.00072.she

Yasheng She

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Abstract

As a cultural construct, the idol is a consumer product created to “heal” in the age of exhaustion. Layering a “guardian” aspect onto Laura Mulvey’s “male gaze,” this paper contextualizes the commodification and consumption of innocence. This paper brings the documentary, Tokyo Idols (2017), and the animated film, Perfect Blue (1997), into a conversation to theorize how femininity is constructed and commodified in Japan’s pop idol industry. The idol culture consumes innocence only to create more trauma for women by stressing the arbitrary importance of innocence and sacrificing female agency in the process.

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治愈无创伤的疼痛

作为一种文化建构，偶像是一种消费品，是为了在疲惫的时代“疗伤”而创造的。在Laura Mulvey的“男性凝视”中加入了“守护者”的一面，本文将天真的商品化和消费置于情境中。本文将纪录片《东京偶像》（2017）和动画电影《完美蓝》（1997）带入对话，以理论化女性气质是如何在日本流行偶像行业中构建和商品化的。偶像文化消费纯真，强调纯真的任意重要性，并在这个过程中牺牲女性的能动性，只会给女性带来更多的创伤。

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Journal of Asian Pacific Communication COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： The journal’s academic orientation is generalist, passionately committed to interdisciplinary approaches to language and communication studies in the Asian Pacific. Thematic issues of previously published issues of JAPC include Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas; Sociolinguistics in China; Japan Communication Issues; Mass Media in the Asian Pacific; Comic Art in Asia, Historical Literacy, and Political Roots; Communication Gains through Student Exchanges & Study Abroad; Language Issues in Malaysia; English Language Development in East Asia; The Teachings of Writing in the Pacific Basin; Language and Identity in Asia; The Economics of Language in the Asian Pacific.