LEADER 03709nam 2200601 450 001 9910788220203321 005 20230207215041.0 010 $a0-231-51834-X 024 7 $a10.7312/sher14662 035 $a(CKB)3170000000065162 035 $a(EBL)4012148 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870454 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11501127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870454 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10819274 035 $a(PQKB)10884247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4012148 035 $a(DE-B1597)459324 035 $a(OCoLC)861793172 035 $a(OCoLC)979683026 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231518345 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4012148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11210279 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL841876 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000065162 100 $a20160526h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJapan's cold war $emedia, literature, and the law /$fAnn Sherif 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14663-9 311 $a0-231-14662-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChronology of the Early Cold War -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Meanings of War and Peace After 1945 -- $t2. Sex and Democracy -- $t3. Hara Tamiki -- $t4. "The World Lives in Fear" -- $t5. The Aesthetics of Speed and the Illogicality of Politics -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aCritics and cultural historians take Japan's postwar insularity for granted, rarely acknowledging the role of Cold War concerns in the shaping of Japanese society and culture. Nuclear anxiety, polarized ideologies, gendered tropes of nationhood, and new myths of progress, among other developments, profoundly transformed Japanese literature, criticism, and art during this era and fueled the country's desire to recast itself as a democratic nation and culture. By rereading the pivotal events, iconic figures, and crucial texts of Japan's literary and artistic life through the lens of the Cold War, Ann Sherif places this supposedly insular nation at the center of a global battle. Each of her chapters focuses on a major moment, spectacle, or critical debate highlighting Japan's entanglement with cultural Cold War politics. Film director Kurosawa Akira, atomic bomb writer Hara Tamiki, singer and movie star Ishihara Yujiro, and even Godzilla and the Japanese translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover all reveal the trends and controversies that helped Japan carve out a postwar literary canon, a definition of obscenity, an idea of the artist's function in society, and modern modes of expression and knowledge. Sherif's comparative approach not only recontextualizes seemingly anomalous texts and ideas, but binds culture firmly to the domestic and international events that defined the decades following World War II. By integrating the art and criticism of Japan into larger social fabrics, Japan's Cold War offers a truly unique perspective on the critical and creative acts of a country remaking itself in the aftermath of war. 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xIntellectual life$y1945- 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 676 $a952.04 700 $aSherif$b Ann$01509543 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788220203321 996 $aJapan's cold war$93741507 997 $aUNINA