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040			_cLCIC Library
082			_aREF 306.095209041 Si39
100			_aMiriam Rom Silverberg _eAuthor
245			_aErotic grotesque nonsense : _bthe mass culture of Japanese modern times / _cMiriam Rom Silverberg
260			_aBerkeley, Calif.: _bUniversity of California Press, _cc2005
300			_axviii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23cm
505			_aJapanese 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
520			_a"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
650			_aJapan Civilization 1912-1926
650			_aPopular culture Japan History 20th century
650			_aPopular Culture
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