TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miriam Rom Silverberg
TI  - Erotic grotesque nonsense : : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / 
SN  - 9780520260085
U1  - REF 306.095209041 Si39 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Japan Civilization 1912-1926
KW  - Popular culture Japan History 20th century
KW  - Popular Culture
N1  - 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
N2  - "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." --Book Jacket

ER  -