ISBN:
9780520260085
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 369, [32] S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. paperback print., [Nachdr.]
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific modern 1
Series Statement:
Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies
Series Statement:
A Philip E. Lilienthal book
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific modern
DDC:
306.095209041
Keywords:
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Japan
;
Massenkultur
;
Geschichte 1912-1940
;
Japan Civilization 1912-1926
;
Japan Civilization 1926-1945
;
Japan
;
Massenkultur
;
Erotik
;
Das Groteske
;
Geschichte 1920-1940
Description / Table of Contents:
Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Placing the consumer-subject within mass culture -- Erotic grotesque nonsense as montage -- Japanese modern culture as politics -- The documentary impulse -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa, honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Gonda Yasunoke's Asakusa -- Soeda Azenbo's Asakusa -- Kawabata Yasunari's Asakusa -- Iwasaki Akira's pork cutlet problem (Hollywood as fantasy) -- Ozaki Midori (love for a cane and a hat) -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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