tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post111618381373559498..comments2023-08-20T08:41:51.527-05:00Comments on At Home He's a Tourist: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post-1116339221325235482005-05-17T09:13:00.000-05:002005-05-17T09:13:00.000-05:00Possible condescension? Leave it to an academic t...<I>Possible</I> condescension? Leave it to an academic to prove the obvious.<BR/><BR/>In Nagoya I ate at one of Iron Chef Chen Kenichi's franchise restaurants. Pretty good, if expensive.Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13463900697710872788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post-1116292820523318822005-05-16T20:20:00.000-05:002005-05-16T20:20:00.000-05:00Judging by the props, it looks like some kind of c...Judging by the props, it looks like some kind of cooking show. Which brings to mind "Iron Chef", of course.<BR/><BR/>A while back I came across a Very Serious Academic Paper which "analyzes the processes by which U.S. media corporations recontextualize non-Western media texts and the consequences of such translation strategies" by "address[ing] the cultural tourism and possible condescension implicit in Iron Chef's U.S. popularity."<BR/><BR/>TITLE: What's So Funny about IRON CHEF? <BR/>SOURCE: Journal of Popular Film and Television 31 no4 176-84 Wint 2004 <BR/><BR/>I doubt that this fellow has been the subject of quite such intense scrutiny.Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02972873626450562217noreply@blogger.com