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Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / / Miriam Silverberg



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Autore: Silverberg Miriam Rom <1951-2008.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / / Miriam Silverberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (423 p.)
Disciplina: 306.0952/09041
Soggetto topico: Popular culture - Japan - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Japan Civilization 1912-1926
Japan Civilization 1926-1945
Soggetto non controllato: 1920s
1930s
academic
colonialism
consumerism
cultural studies
culture
daily life
erotic
ethnography
fashion
food
government
grotesque
homeless
housing
ideology
japan
japanese history
japanese
mass culture
modern world
movies
pearl harbor
photography
political
politics
pop culture
popular entertainment
postwar
rural
scholarly
social studies
television
urban
wartime
world war 2.
wwii
Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 informed the organization of Japanese mass culture during the 1920's and 1930's, Silverberg challenges the erasure of Japanese colonialism and its legacies. She evokes vivid images from daily life during the 1920's and 1930's, including details about food, housing, fashion, modes of popular entertainment, and attitudes toward sexuality. Her innovative study demonstrates how new public spaces, new relationships within the family, and an ironic sensibility expressed the attitude of Japanese consumers who identified with the modern as providing a cosmopolitan break from tradition at the same time that they mobilized for war.
Titolo autorizzato: Erotic grotesque nonsense  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35596-1
9786612355967
0-520-92462-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820531103321
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Serie: Asia Pacific modern ; ; 1.