Japanese Visual Media

Politicizing the Screen

Eyal Ben-Ari author Jennifer Coates author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:13th Aug '21

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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.

ISBN: 9780367722975

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

222 pages