Japan, 1972 Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism

Japan, 1972 takes an early-seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media, exposing the underpinnings of mass culture and investigating deeper anxieties over agency and masculinity.

About the author

Yoshikuni Igarashi is professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945–1970 (2000) and Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers (Columbia, 2016).

Summary

Japan, 1972 takes an early-seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media, exposing the underpinnings of mass culture and investigating deeper anxieties over agency and masculinity.

Additional text

Igarashi pioneers a new paradigm for understanding the shift in cultural consciousness brought on by the spread of television. This book will interest scholars of all levels, from advanced undergraduates to senior scholars interested in modern Japanese history, cultural studies, social movements, media studies, and popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Yoshikuni Igarashi, Yoshikuni (Vanderbilt University) Igarashi, Igarashi Yoshikuni
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.01.2021
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History
• EAN: 9780231195553
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19555-3
• Pages: 384
• Subjects: History; Media Studies; HISTORY / General; Japanese history; Japanese society; media studies; Japanese Society