Erotic grotesque nonsense
the mass culture of Japanese modern times
by Miriam Rom Silverberg
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"This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades before 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 1920s and 1930s, Silverberg challenges the erasure of Japanese colonialism and its legacies."--Jacket.
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Popular culture, Civilization, History, Japan, social life and customs, Japan, history, Culture populaire, Histoire, CivilisationPlaces
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Erotic grotesque nonsense: the mass culture of Japanese modern times
2006, University of California Press
in English
0520222733 9780520222731
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index.
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