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As a cultural construct, the idol is a consumer product created to “heal” in the age of exhaustion. Layering a
“guardian” aspect onto Laura Mulvey’s “male gaze,” this paper contextualizes the commodification and consumption of innocence.
This paper brings the documentary, Tokyo Idols (2017), and the animated film, Perfect Blue
(1997), into a conversation to theorize how femininity is constructed and commodified in Japan’s pop idol industry. The idol
culture consumes innocence only to create more trauma for women by stressing the arbitrary importance of innocence and sacrificing
female agency in the process.
期刊介绍:
The journal’s academic orientation is generalist, passionately committed to interdisciplinary approaches to language and communication studies in the Asian Pacific. Thematic issues of previously published issues of JAPC include Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas; Sociolinguistics in China; Japan Communication Issues; Mass Media in the Asian Pacific; Comic Art in Asia, Historical Literacy, and Political Roots; Communication Gains through Student Exchanges & Study Abroad; Language Issues in Malaysia; English Language Development in East Asia; The Teachings of Writing in the Pacific Basin; Language and Identity in Asia; The Economics of Language in the Asian Pacific.