“Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media”

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Abstract

Jinhee Choi concentrates on how a popular science-fiction figure operates in the hybridized context of time-travel romances, focusing on the gender politics of the much-overlooked female time travelers in contemporary East Asian media productions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationScreening Characters
Subtitle of host publicationTheories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media
EditorsJohannes Riis , Aaron Taylor
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter14
Pages251-65
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9780429422508
ISBN (Print)9781138391826
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Publication series

NameAFI Film Readers
PublisherRoutledge

Keywords

  • girls
  • time travel
  • East Asia
  • gender
  • popular culture
  • anime
  • shojo
  • girlhood

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