American Culture Lessons for Netflix Fans Released on May 15, 2026

Rittosha, a publishing label for literature and culture within Rittor Music, part of the Impress Group, released American Culture Lessons for Netflix Fans on May 15, 2026. The book uses well-known dramas and documentaries available on Netflix to read contemporary American culture. It explains topics that viewers may miss when watching casually, including the boundary between everyday civic life and crime, the little-known current realities of race and religion, coming-of-age ceremonies, matchmaking, and the bond between people and pets. By organizing a wide range of works by themes such as education, religion, labor, drugs, thought, punishment, welfare, and war, the book examines the realities of the United States as a vast and complex nation. Chapters cover topics including American college admissions and the truth about professors, Jewish matchmaking and coming-of-age rituals, the rise of bullshit jobs and the disappearance of the middle class, “legal” drugs that corrode society, heirs to Walt Whitman’s legacy, life in America as a prison nation, increasingly complex images of Asian Americans, the social rehabilitation of rescue dogs, and Korean dramas in relation to the Vietnam War. Book information: American Culture Lessons for Netflix Fans, written by Keita Hatooka, priced at 2,750 yen, published by Rittosha and sold by Rittor Music. Keita Hatooka was born in 1977 and is a professor in the Department of English Literature at Hosei University. He holds a PhD in literature from Keio University. His books include An Introduction to Adaptation for Film Source Material Fans, The World of Film Novelizations, Is There a Future for Content Criticism?, Susan Sontag, and Contemporary Japan in Light Novels.