Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Moonlight Mask and the Mimesis Nexus in New Media
There's a really interesting tension between in the book not just between these two types of mimesis that you talk about and then hyper medius see hyper mediation, but also the tension with the desire for immediacy. And I wonder if maybe we could start to jump into this kind of unit here through the case study that you use in chapter four, which is a TV series called moonlight mask get goCome. So can you tell us about moonlight mask about get will come in and how you've used that in your book to sort of bring these concepts out and flush out your argument? Sure. Get go common is really kind of interesting because it's the first post war television superhero
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