Japans Cold War - Media, Literature, and the Law

Informationen zum Autor Ann Sherif is professor of Japanese language and literature at Oberlin College. Her publications include Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya. Klappentext By rereading the pivotal events! iconic figures! and crucial texts of Japan's literary and artistic life through the lens of the Cold War! Ann Sherif places a supposedly insular nation at the centre of a global battle. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsChronology of the Early Cold WarIntroduction: The Strange Tension of the Cold War1. The Meanings of War and Peace After 19452. Sex and Democracy: Lady Chatterley's Lover in Cold War Japan3. Hara Tamiki: First Witness to the Cold War4. "The World Lives in Fear": Kamei Fumio's Nuclear Films5. The Aesthetics of Speed and the Illogicality of Politics: Ishihara Shintaro as a Cold War YouthConclusion: Cold War as CultureNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Ann Sherif, Ann (Associate Professor Sherif, Sherif Ann
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9780231146623
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14662-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Japan, History, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Society and culture: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General