Japanese Visual Media

Politicizing the Screen

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by Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Japan

Keywords

Japan, sociology

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Series

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 232 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-72299-9

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
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.

See the publisher website: Routledge