Erotic Grotesque Nonsense :: the Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times.

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 sou...

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Main Author: Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Series:Asia Pacific modern.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (423 pages)
ISBN:9780520924628
0520924622