Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times /
Employing the concept of montage as a metaphor that informed the organization of Japanese mass culture during the 1920s and 1930s, this work challenges the erasure of Japanese colonialism and its legacies.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2006.
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| Series: | Asia Pacific modern ;
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppn8h |
Table of Contents:
- 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.