Asian Leisure/popular culture

A checklislt of publications by John Lent on H-Asia, September 1995

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:16:09 -0700
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Subject: H-ASIA: Asian Leisure/popular culture
From: Raymond Lum <rlum@husc.harvard.edu>

Further sources on leisure and popular culture in Asia [to which is added a list of some other items of interest written or edited by John A. Lent, FFC]

With reference to last month's posts on urban leisure and popular culture the following book just arrived which contains a number of interesting essays:

_Asian Popular Culture_, ed. by John A. Lent. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 232 pp. [ISBN: 0-8133-2048-8// 0-8133-2049-6]

Contents:

-John Lent, Introduction
-Craig A. Lockard,' Hey,We Equatorial People: Popular Music and Contemporary Society in Malaysia'
-Alan Wells and Lee Chun Wah, Music Culture in Singapore: Record Companies, Retailers, and Performers
-Deborah Wong, Thai Cassettes and Their Covers: Two Case Histories
-Barbara Ryan, Blood, Brothers, and Hong Kong Gangster Movies: Pop Culture Commentary on 'One China'
-John A. Lent, Southeast Asia Pop Art: The Movie Billboard
-Ron Tanner, Mr. Atomic, Mr. Mercury, and Chime Trooper: Japan's Answer to the American Dream
-Antonio Lopez, Coffee Shop Culture: Days in the Life of Manila's Gossip Mill
-Leonard Rifas, Cartooning in Sri Lanka: A Precarious Tightrope Act
-Kinko Ito, Sexism in Japanese Weekly Comic Magazines for Men
-Mary Ann Farquhar, Sanmao: Classic Cartoons and Chinese Popular Culture
-Aruna Rao, Immortal Picture-Stories: Comic Art in Early Indian Art
-John A. Lent, The Moving Art Galleries of South and Southeast Asia
-Ronald Provencher, Modern Malay Folklore: The Humor Magazines
-Laura Miller,Crossing Ethnolinguistic Boundaries: A Preliminary Look at the Gaijin Tarento in Japan
-Elizabeth Kiritani, Pachinko, Japan's National Pastime

Raymond Lum
Harvard College Library

Ed. note:

Some other titles written or edited by John Lent that might be of interest:

Title: Brunei and Malaysian studies :: present knowledge and research trends on Brunei and on Malaysian anthropology, mass communication and women's studies / Kent Mulliner and John A. Lent, guest editors.; Pub. Info.: Williamsburg, Va. : Department of Anthropology, college of William and Mary, 1994.; Series Info.: Studies in third world societies no. 54.
Title: Social science models and their impact on the Third World / [John A. Lent, guest editor].: Pub. Info.: [Williamsburg, Va. : Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1991].; Series Info.: Studies in Third World societies ; publication no. 45.
Title: Malaysian studies : present knowledge and research trends / John A. Lent, editor.: Pub. Info.: [De Kalb] : Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies ; Detroit : exclusive distribution by Cellar Book Shop, 1979.; Series Info.: Occasional papers (Northern Illinois University. Center for Southeast Asian Studies) ; no. 7.
Title: Transnational communications : wiring the Third World: edited by Gerald Sussman, John A. Lent.; Pub. Info.: Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1991.; Series Info.: Communication and human values (Newbury Park, Calif.).; ISBN: 0803937652. 0803937660 (pbk.).
Author: Lent, John A.: Title: Women and mass communications : an international annotated bibliography / compiled by John A. Lent.; Pub. Info.: New York ; Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1991.; Series Info.: Bibliographies and indexes in women's studies ; no. 11.; ISBN: 0313265798 (alk. paper).
Author: Lent, John A.: Title: The Asian film industry / John A. Lent.; Pub. Info.: Bromley : Christopher Helm, 1990.; ISBN: 0747020000 :.
Title: Global guide to media & communications / [edited by] John A. Lent.: Pub. Info.: Munchen ; New York : Saur, 1987.
Title: Malaysian studies : archaeology, historiography, geography, and bibliography: John A. Lent and Kent Mulliner, editors.; Pub. Info.: [De Kalb] : Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies ; Detroit : exclusive distribution by Cellar Book Shop, [1985], c1986.; Series Info.: Occasional papers (Northern Illinois University. Center for Southeast Asian Studies) ; no. 11. Monograph series on Southeast Asia.
Title: The Asian newspapers' reluctant revolution. Edited by John A. Lent.: Edition: [1st ed.].; Pub. Info.: Ames, Iowa State University Press [1971].; ISBN: 0813813353.
Title: Newspapers in Asia : contemporary trends and problems / edited by John A. Lent.: Pub. Info.: Hong Kong : Heinemann Asia, 1982.; ISBN: 9622250793.
Title: Case studies of mass media in the Third World.: Pub. Info.: [Williamsburg, Va. : Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, c1980]. John A. Lent, guest editor.. Includes bibliographical references.; Contents: Contents: Nichols J.S. The Havana hustle.--Knudson, J Treatment of the Indian in the Bolivian press.--Pollock, J.C. Reporting on critical events abroad.--Willer, T.F Perceptions of women in Singapore.--Parker, E. The Malaysian elections of 1974.--Ugboajah, F. and Sobowale, I The press in West Africa.--Lee, W.L. Television programming in the sixties.--Shaheen, J.G. Television programming in selected Middle East nations.; Series Info.: Studies in Third World societies ; publication no. 10.
Title: Third World mass media : issues, theory and research / John A. Lent, guest editor.: Pub. Info.: Williamsburg, Va. : Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, c1979.; Series Info.: Studies in Third World societies ; publication no. 9.
Author: Lent, John A.: Title: Malaysian mass media : historical and contemporary perspectives / by John A. Lent.; Pub. Info.: Amherst, N. Y. : Council on International Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1978.; Series Info.: Special studies (State University of New York at Buffalo Council on International Studies) ; no. 101.
Title: Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific : a continental survey of radio and television: edited by John A. Lent.; Pub. Info.: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1978.; Series Info.: International and comparative broadcasting.; ISBN: 0877220689.
Title: Guided press in Southeast Asia : national development vs freedom of expression: David A. Rosenberg ... [et al.] ; edited by John A. Lent.; Pub. Info.: Amherst, N. Y. : Council on International Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1976.; Series Info.: Special studies (State University of New York at Buffalo Council on International Studies) ; no. 86.
Author: Lent, John A.: Title: Asian mass communications ; a comprehensive bibliography / by John A. Lent.; Pub. Info.: [Philadelphia] : School of Communications and Theater, Temple University, [c1974].
Author: Lent, John A.: Title: The Asian Film Industry; Pub Info.: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990; Series Info.: Film Studies; ISBN: 0-292-70421-6// 0-292-70422-4 Paper
Author: Boyd, Douglas A. Straubhaar, Joseph D. Lent, John A.: Title: Videocassette Recorders in the Third World; Pub Info.: Longman Publishing Group, 1989; ISBN: 0-8013-0196-3
Author: Lent, John A. (Editor): Title: The Asian Newspapers' Reluctant Revolution; Pub Info.: Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1971; ISBN: 0-8138-1335-2
Author: Hirschman, C. Sutlive, V. H. Gagliano, F. Thomas, R. M. Shulman, F. J. Provencher, R. Lent, John A. (Editor): Title: Malaysian Studies: Present Knowledge and Research Trends; Pub Info.: Detroit: Cellar Book Shop, 1979; Series: U Cal Ctr SSE Asian Stud. Occasional Paper Ser. Vol. No. 7; ISBN: 0-686-26880-6
Author: Lent, John A. (Editor): Title: Cultural Pluralism in Malaysia: Polity, Military, Mass Media, Education, Religion and Social Class; Pub Info.: Detroit: Cellar Book Shop, 1982; Series: Special Report Ser. Vol. No. 14; ISBN: 0-686-09455-7

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