Title Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan / Franz Prichard

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Contents Prelude to the traffic war : infrastructural aesthetics of the Cold War -- Disappearance : topological visuality in Abe Kobo's urban literature -- Landscape vocabularies : for a language to come and the geopolitics of reading from Topoi to media -- An illustrated dictionary of urban overflows -- Photography as threshold and pathway after reversion -- Residual futures Summary "The first book-length study of the ways in which filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with Japan's urbanization and integration into the U.S. geopolitical system in the 1960s and 70s. The works Prichard discusses in this book tell a story of radical criticism, thought, and cultural practice at a time of rapid change in Japan and across East Asia. In the first chapter, Prichard examines the documentary filmmaker Tsuchimoto Noriaki's engagement with the dispossession effected by the material remaking of Tokyo ahead of the 1964 Olympics. Chapter two undertakes a "topological analysis" of Abe Kobo's late-1960s writings, focusing on the themes of anonymity and urban sociality. In the last three chapters, Prichard explores the critical and photographic work of Nakahira Takuma, who elaborates, along with other critics with whom he enters into dialogue, what Prichard calls "a radical discourse of landscape"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Japan Urbanization -- Japan -- History Social ecology -- Japan -- History Mass media -- Social aspects -- Japan SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese. Mass media -- Social aspects Social ecology Urban ecology (Sociology) Urbanization SUBJECT Japan -- History -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006005810 Subject Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018056373 ISBN 9780231549332 0231549334

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