Delinquent Girls and Capitalist Consumption
For my final project, I wanted to more closely examine the category of
dangerous youth, specifically that of the dangerous female youth.
Throughout our class, we have several times confronted the intersection
between youth and female sexualized bodies, such as in the case of
enjo-kosei, comfort women, and even ko-gyaru.
Throughout this essay, I examine several different sites to form an
analysis of representations of delinquent Japanese youth, specifically
violent girls. I am most interesting in working with sukeban films from
the 1970's, the drama Majisuka Gakuen, and the work of Sharon Kinsella.
Since my focus is on media, I'm not dealing with actual girls, but
rather images of them created by people are presumably not members of
the same societal position. This means my analysis has less to do with
the thoughts and emotions of Japanese girls, but rather with how such
girls are perceived and mobilized. Following with our class discussions,
I want to also focus on how consumption and capitalism interact with
bad girl figures, especially in how they are consumed and are shown to
be consuming. The biggest contradiction I am interested in is if these
texts are products designed only to be mindlessly consumed, is there any
chance for an alternative, counter-capitalist interpretation of these
texts?
dangerous youth, specifically that of the dangerous female youth.
Throughout our class, we have several times confronted the intersection
between youth and female sexualized bodies, such as in the case of
enjo-kosei, comfort women, and even ko-gyaru.
Throughout this essay, I examine several different sites to form an
analysis of representations of delinquent Japanese youth, specifically
violent girls. I am most interesting in working with sukeban films from
the 1970's, the drama Majisuka Gakuen, and the work of Sharon Kinsella.
Since my focus is on media, I'm not dealing with actual girls, but
rather images of them created by people are presumably not members of
the same societal position. This means my analysis has less to do with
the thoughts and emotions of Japanese girls, but rather with how such
girls are perceived and mobilized. Following with our class discussions,
I want to also focus on how consumption and capitalism interact with
bad girl figures, especially in how they are consumed and are shown to
be consuming. The biggest contradiction I am interested in is if these
texts are products designed only to be mindlessly consumed, is there any
chance for an alternative, counter-capitalist interpretation of these
texts?
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