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The Japanese adult video industry

The Japanese adult video industry 268 BOOK REVIEWS The Japanese adult video industry, by Wong, Heung-wah and Yau, Hoi-yan, London, Routledge, 2018 246 pp., £115 (hardback), ISBN: 9780415703789 Heung Wah Wong and Hoi-yan Yau’s The Japanese Adult Video Industry is one of the first English-language ethnographic accounts of the business of Japanese pornography. While there have previously been works on particular pornographic texts and their implications for diverse, particularly queer, genders and sexualities in Japan, this is one of the first ethno- graphic descriptions of the production of pornographic material for the heterosexual market. It is also perhaps one of the most detailed and candid ethnographies on the topic, providing vivid observational descriptions of encounters within the industry, both sexual and other- wise. The Japanese adult video (AV) industry has attracted the attention of Japanese historians and sociologists, with a large side industry in popular non-fiction publications about the lives and experiences of AV stars and actors. English-language accounts have tended to be thin on the ground, however, mostly consisting of side projects and commen- taries that emerge from other ethnographic encounters. Wong and Yau’s account goes beyond these works to provide an exhaustive historical, anthropological and sociological account of this ubiquitous yet under-examined http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

The Japanese adult video industry

Coates, Jamie
Contemporary Japan , Volume 31 (2): 4 – Jul 3, 2019
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The Japanese adult video industry

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268 BOOK REVIEWS The Japanese adult video industry, by Wong, Heung-wah and Yau, Hoi-yan, London, Routledge, 2018 246 pp., £115 (hardback), ISBN: 9780415703789 Heung Wah Wong and Hoi-yan Yau’s The Japanese Adult Video Industry is one of the first English-language ethnographic accounts of the business of Japanese pornography. While there have previously been works on particular pornographic texts and their implications for diverse, particularly queer, genders and sexualities...
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© 2018 Jamie Coates
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1869-2737
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268 BOOK REVIEWS The Japanese adult video industry, by Wong, Heung-wah and Yau, Hoi-yan, London, Routledge, 2018 246 pp., £115 (hardback), ISBN: 9780415703789 Heung Wah Wong and Hoi-yan Yau’s The Japanese Adult Video Industry is one of the first English-language ethnographic accounts of the business of Japanese pornography. While there have previously been works on particular pornographic texts and their implications for diverse, particularly queer, genders and sexualities in Japan, this is one of the first ethno- graphic descriptions of the production of pornographic material for the heterosexual market. It is also perhaps one of the most detailed and candid ethnographies on the topic, providing vivid observational descriptions of encounters within the industry, both sexual and other- wise. The Japanese adult video (AV) industry has attracted the attention of Japanese historians and sociologists, with a large side industry in popular non-fiction publications about the lives and experiences of AV stars and actors. English-language accounts have tended to be thin on the ground, however, mostly consisting of side projects and commen- taries that emerge from other ethnographic encounters. Wong and Yau’s account goes beyond these works to provide an exhaustive historical, anthropological and sociological account of this ubiquitous yet under-examined

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