Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 393 pages)
,
illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520271955
,
0520954246
,
1283902338
,
9780520271951
,
9780520954243
,
9781283902335
Series Statement:
Asia: local studies / global themes 22
Content:
Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation-the Great Kant? Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923-this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kant? earthquake triggered cultural responses that ran the gamut from voyeuristic and macabre thrill to the romantic sublime, media spectacle to sacred space, mournful commemoration to emancipatory euphoria, and national solidarity to racist vigilantism and sociopolitical critique. Looking at photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketch
Content:
Earthquakes in Japan : a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster : altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue : afterlives
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. (Gennifer Stacy), 1966- Imaging disaster
Language:
English
Author information:
Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. 1966-
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