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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459183803321

Titolo

War/time [[electronic resource] /] / Frenchy Lunning, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8166-7063-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Mechademia, , 1934-2489 ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

LunningFrenchy

Disciplina

741.5952

Soggetti

Animation (Cinematography) - Japan

Animated films - Japan - History and criticism

Animated television programs - Japan - History and criticism

Video games - Japan

Comic books, strips, etc - Japan - History and criticism

World War, 1939-1945

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: War/Time; Legacies of Sovereignty; Control Room; History/Memory; Genre Violence; Mobilization/Domestication; Review and Commentary; Contributors; Call for Papers

Sommario/riassunto

The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propaganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the Mechademia series address the political, cultural, and technological continuum between war and the everyday time of orderly social productivity that is refle