Propaganda Performed: Kamishibai in Japan's Fifteen-Year War

The first in-depth scholarly study in English of the Japanese performance medium kamishibai, Sharalyn Orbaugh's Propaganda Performed illuminates the vibrant street culture of 1930s Japan as well as the visual and narrative rhetoric of Japanese propaganda in World War II.

About the author

Sharalyn Orbaugh is professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her publications address issues of corporality and visuality in the fiction and other narrative forms of modern Japan. She is the author of Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation (Brill, 2007).

Product details

• Authors: Sharalyn Orbaugh
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9789004248823
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24882-3
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 254 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1406 g
• Series: Japanese Visual Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous