Beyond the Male Idol Factory: The Construction of Gender and National Ideologies in Japan Through Johnny’s Jimusho

＂A star-making factory without rival, the Japanese talent agency Johnny’s Jimusho has brought fame to several generations of male stars - singers, actors and performers. Beyond the Male Idol Factory asks what the phenomenon of ＂Johnny’s Idols＂ reveals about discourses of masculinity and national identity in contemporary Japan. Taking a wide-ranging cultural studies approach, the book assesses the social, economic and demographic contexts of these familiar stars in post-industrial and post-Bubble Japanese society＂--

Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar is a professor and researcher at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, member of the Mexican National System of Researchers.