Representation or misrepresentation?: British media and Japanese popular culture

The Portrayal of Suicide in Postmodern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture Media

Smoking in British popular culture 1800–2000: perfect pleasures

Smoke from cigars, pipes and cigarettes has curled its way through all levels of society in the last two hundred years. Matthew Hilton peels away the multifaceted images evoked by smoking in British literature, advertising and the cinema, as well as by more recent medical and political responses. The virtues attributed to tobacco, pleasure and relaxation, were primarily for the leisured classes...

Rising Sun, Iron Cross – Military Germany in Japanese Popular Culture

Diverse depictions of the WWII German army exist in Japanese popular culture. This essay will explore the origins of the Japanese fandom devoted to German military technology and also the way that authors have (re)produced stereotypes related to German culture and traditions in their portrayals of wartime Germany. Finally, using examples by authors Tezuka Osamu and Aramaki Yoshio, this essay wi...

Medicine and the media--misrepresentation of interview.

Sir, In your new feature 'Medicine and the Media' (8th July, p. 121) you mention my contribution to what you considered a muddled feature on the hazards of jogging in Tonight (BBC 1, 28 June). Perhaps the inside story may be of help to some of your readers as an example of what happens to the naive clinician when faced with the media. I am tending now very strongly to the view that the producer...

Christianity and Popular Culture