ISBN:
0520222733
,
9780520222731
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 369 S., [16] Bl.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific modern 1
Series Statement:
Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific modern
DDC:
306.0952/09041
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1912-1940
;
Culture populaire - Japon - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Geschichte
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Massenkultur
;
Volkskultur
;
Japon - Civilisation - 1912-1926
;
Japon - Civilisation - 1926-1945
;
Japan Civilization 1912-1926
;
Japan Civilization 1926-1945
;
Japan
;
Japan
;
Volkskultur
;
Massenkultur
;
Geschichte 1912-1940
Abstract:
"This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades before Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero guro nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous photographs from this era to capture the spirit, textures, and language of a time when the media reached all classes, connecting the rural social order to urban mores. Employing the concept of montage as a metaphor that informed the organization of Japanese mass culture during the 1920s and 1930s, Silverberg challenges the erasure of Japanese colonialism and its legacies."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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