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Author Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008.

Title Erotic Grotesque Nonsense : the Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (423 pages)
Series Asia Pacific Modern
Asia Pacific modern.
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
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Civilization
Popular culture
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1912-1926. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069376
Japan -- Civilization -- 1926-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069377
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520924628
0520924622