Discourse in Light Novels??!!

Potential future topic:

The reaction to American fiction in Japanese fiction, including responses, re-imaginings, and adaptations. Inspiring example is the high fantasy genre parody of The Slayers in novel format, coming out of a sudden glut of DnD-esque fantasy literature/light novels in the nineties.

Two Modes of Film

Essentially we can break down the types of documentaries on American and British Television into two modes; Japan as Foreign Interest and Japan as Foreign Spectacle. While these are not mutually exclusive modes for these documentaries, indeed, they cross over quite often, they are the dominant modes of discourse within these sets of programmes. Though my purview is limited to the last ten years, to documentary easily found with entries on their respective websites, and to availability, I believe they are representative of the documentaries that are shown on these public television venues on Japan. At the very least, the majority of the discourse falling into certain modes across these limited number of documentaries is representative of a discourse trend that is worth looking at.

Side Note : If I were only talking about Japanese Documentaries instead of Documentaries about Japan...

According to From Grierson to the Docu-soap: Breaking the Boundaries, a collection of essays from a similarly titled conference ont he documentary held in 1999, there's an essay on the imapct of Paul Rotha, a contemporary of Greirson, a highly influential documentarian, on the Japanese fiml analyst scene post WWII. Again we see the bounce of western philosophic/theory thought within the Japanese context, especially considering the hot era of post WWII when the Americans were running the Occupation.