Description |
1 online resource (423 pages) |
Series |
Asia Pacific Modern |
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Asia Pacific modern.
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Contents |
Contents; List of Illustrations; By Way of a Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Japanese Modern Times; Part II. Japanese Modern Sites; Part III. Asakusa-- Honky-Tonk Tempo; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding 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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Popular culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Civilization
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Popular culture
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SUBJECT |
Japan -- Civilization -- 1912-1926.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069376
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Japan -- Civilization -- 1926-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069377
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Subject |
Japan
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780520924628 |
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0520924622 |
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