Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times /
Miriam Silverberg.
Bok Engelsk 2006 Miriam Rom Silverberg,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , c2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (423 p.)
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| Opplysninger | "A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket.. - 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.. - 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 metaph
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| ISBN | 0520222733. - 9780520222731
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