Format:
Online-Ressource (423 p.)
ISBN:
9780520222731
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific Modern v.1
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; By Way of a Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. JAPANESE MODERN TIMES; Japanese Modern within Modernity; Placing the Consumer-Subject within Mass Culture; Erotic Grotesque Nonsense as Montage; Japanese Modern Culture as Politics; The Documentary Impulse; PART II. JAPANESE MODERN SITES; 1. The Modern Girl as Militant (Movement on the Streets); Identifying the Modern Girl; What Did She Do?; What Made the Modern Girl Do What She Did?; 2. The Café Waitress Sang the Blues; Eroticizing the Modern Japanese Café Waitress
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Kawabata Yasunari's AsakusaHollywood as Fantasy; Ozaki Midori (Love for a Cane and a Hat); 2. Down-and-Out Grotesquerie; Beggar Culture; Vagrant Culture; Juvenile Delinquents; The Hawkers; Foreigners as Freaks; 3. Modern Nonsense; The Irony of Parody; The "Casino Folies" Affirms the False; Letting Go of the Modern-Charlie Left Behind; Freeze Frames (An Epilogue in Montage); Tempo (1931); Gestures (1932); Code Switch (1936); The Parody of Comedy (1940); Asakusa Memories (the 1970s and 1980s); The Return of the Modern Girl (the 1990s); Giving the Modern Girl Her Due; The End
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List of AbbreviationsNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
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Documenting the Café Waitress"A New Study of the Everyday Life of the Café Waitress"; "A Close Look at Ginza"; "Tale of Wandering"; How the Japanese Café Waitress Sang the Blues; 3. Friends of the Movies (From Ero to Empire); Ero; Ero at the Movies; Toward Empire; 4. The Household Becomes Modern Life; The Family-State of "Shufu no Tomo"; Wives and Husbands (the Shufu in Fufu); The Fufu in Discord/Household in Discord; Women at Work; Modern Times for the Housewife; PART III. ASAKUSA - HONKY-TONK TEMPO; 1. Asakusa Eroticism; Gonda Yasunoke's Asakusa (an Official View); Soeda Azenbo's Asakusa
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520924628
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520222731
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Erotic Grotesque Nonsense : The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times
Language:
English
Keywords:
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