Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen (Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Series) - Hardcover

Coates, Jennifer; Ben-Ari, Eyal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367722976 ISBN 13: 9780367722975

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book uncovers and explains the ways by which politics is naturalized and denaturalized, and familiarized and de-familiarized through popular media. It explores the tensions between state actors such as censors, politicized and nonpoliticized audiences, and visual media creators, at various points in the history of Japanese visual media. It offers new research on a wide array of visual media texts including classical narrative cinema, television, documentary film, manga, and animated film. It spans the militarized decades of the 1930s and 1940s, through the Asia Pacific War into the present day, and demonstrates how processes of politicization and depoliticization should be understood as part of wider historical developments including Japan’s postwar devastation and poverty, subsequent rapid modernization and urbanization, and the aging population and economic struggles of the twenty-first century.

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About the Author

Jennifer Coates is a senior lecturer in Japanese studies in the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Eyal Ben-Ari is director of the Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace, Israel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367722976
• ISBN 13: 9780367722975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232