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Torres, Chair  \nEducation knows no boundaries but hot button topics, like comic books, demonstrate school, teacher and parent limitations. Japanese comic books (manga) are a litmus test of pedagogical tolerance. Because they play an important role in the lives of most Taiwanese teenagers, I give them pride of place in this dissertation. To understand Japanese comic books and their influence, I use Paulo Freire ’s critical pedagogy to combine perspectives from cultural studies, comparative education, and educational sociology. With the cooperation of the administration, faculty and students ofa Taiwanese junior high school, I used surveys, a textual analysis of five student-selected titles and interviews with students and educators. I discovered that Japanese manga contain complex and sometimes contradictory ideologies of ethnicity, gender, class, and violence. From an ethnic perspective, although students may glean cultural content from manga heroes and their retinues, people of color and non-Japanese Asians are either caricatures or non-existent; although Taiwanese teenager readers seem unaware of this. From a gender standpoint, neither the female characters’ provocative representation nor the male characters’slavering responses to it raise students’ and teachers’ concerns.  \nDepictions of social and economic class are sometimes distinct in Japanese comic books. However, the dominant ideology oftheir creators is middle-class. Students are mostly oblivious to such distinctions, but may notice that ancient caste precepts survive. Although most manga focus on violent combat, students have no problem with excessive gore. By a process I call “fantasized death,” violence is not only neutralized but transformed into aesthetic and spiritual challenges that encourage readers.  \nTaiwanese students love Japanese comic books. However, from a post-colonialist perspective, the growing hybridity of Taiwanese and Japanese cultural images may create challenges for the future of a discernible Taiwanese phenotype. I suggest that critical pedagogy may provide an antidote to this unfortunate fusion, which is currently unrecognized by the adolescent comic book consumers who are its harbingers or by the majority of their preceptors.  \nKeywords: Comic Books, Freire, Critical Cultural Studies, Post-colonialism, Taiwan  \nThis dissertation ofFang-Tzu Hsu is approved.  \nDouglas Kellner  \nRichard Desjardins  \nVirginia Walter  \nCarlos A. Torres, Committee Chair  \nUniversity of California, Los Angeles  \n2015  \nDedication Page  \nI dedicate this work to Huan-Tang Huang, my beloved fiancé, who has had the greatest patience in the world to wait for me for ten years. As a professional librarian and a comic book lover, he supported my study from start to finish. His company and kindness helped me overcome many challenges, even though we spent three years living on opposite sides of the Pacific Rim.  \nTable of Contents  \nCHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION p.1  \n1.1 Teenagers and Comic Books p.1  \n1.2 Taking Comic Books Seriously p.4  \n1.3 Structure of Chapters p.9  \nCHAPTER 2: A FREIREAN APPROACH TO COMIC BOOK ANALYSIS p.13  \n2.1 The Influence of Japanese Manga on Taiwanese Youth p.13  \n2.2 Cultural Studies Perspective: Ideologies in Comic Books p.15  \n2.3 A Comparative Educational Perspective on Japanese Cultural Influence p.29  \n2.4 Educational Sociological Perspective: Influence of Comic Books p.33  \n2.5 Conclusion: Buildin","cbCaicBLES1JB7sS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicBLES1JB7sS","pdf",2774450,220,"English","# Chapter One: Introduction\n## Teenagers and Comic Books\n## Taking Comic Books Seriously\n## Structure of Chapters\n# Chapter 2: A Freirean Approach to Comic Book Analysis\n## The Influence of Japanese Manga on Taiwanese Youth\n## Cultural Studies Perspective: Ideologies in Comic Books\n## A Comparative Educational Perspective on Japanese Cultural Influence\n## Educational Sociological Perspective: Influence of Comic Books\n## Conclusion: Building Up a Freirean Approach\n# Chapter 3: Methodology and Methods\n## Freirian Methodology\n## Multiple Methods\n# Chapter 4 The Dazzling Comic World: Reactions of Taiwanese Students and Educators\n## Results of the Survey: Comic Book Reading Preference and Top 5 Comic Books\n## The Reactions of Textual Analysis: Ideologies in Mainstream Comic Books\n## Interviews: Perspectives of Students and Educators\n# Chapter 5 Into the Great Comic Book Era: Critical Analysis of Research Results\n## The Ideology and Influence of Ethnicity\n## Ideologies of Gender and Their Influence\n## The Influence of Class Ideologies\n## The Influence of Ideologies of Violence\n## Japanese Cultural Dominance in the Neo-liberal World\n## Is Critical Pedagogy for Comic Books possible?\n# Chapter 6 Conclusion\n## Answers to Research Questions\n## Research Limitations and Possibilities\n## Implications\n## Final Thoughts","[{\"question\":\"What theoretical framework guides the dissertation’s analysis of manga influence?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy, combined with perspectives from cultural studies, comparative education, and educational sociology to interpret how manga affects Taiwanese youth.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the findings describe manga representations of ethnicity?\",\"answer\":\"The dissertation finds that manga may convey cultural content through heroes and their entourages, but people of color and non-Japanese Asians are often portrayed as caricatures or are absent, a point students seem largely unaware of.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study conclude about violence in Japanese comic books?\",\"answer\":\"Although much manga focuses on violent combat, students show no strong concern about gore; through a process the author calls “fantasized death,” violence is neutralized and transformed into aesthetic and spiritual challenges.\"}]","Reading Comic Books Critically - How Japanese Comic Books Influence Taiwanese Students | PDF",554]