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Japan's carnival war : mass culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945 / Benjamin Uchiyama

Publisher	(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)
Year	2019
Authors	*Uchiyama, Benjamin 1979- author

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Links to the text	Location	Volume	Call No.	Barcode No.	Status	Comments	ISBN	Printed	Restriction	Reserve
Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00122545		Cambridge Core All Books (電子ブック)	9781316899823

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Other titles	original title:Carnival war
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2019) The reporter -- The munitions worker -- The soldier -- The movie star -- The youth aviator -- Gendering carnival war -- Global echoes of carnival war -- The circus freak next to the policeman Japan in the Asia-Pacific War years is usually remembered for economic deprivation, political repression, and cultural barrenness. Benjamin Uchiyama argues that although the war created the opportunity for the state to expand its control over society and mass culture, it also fractured Japanese people's sense of identity, spilling out through a cultural framework which is best understood as 'carnival war'. In this cultural history, we are introduced to five symbolic figures: the thrill-seeking reporter, the defiant munitions worker, the tragic soldier, the elusive movie star, and the glamorous youth aviator. Together they represent both the suppression and proliferation of cultural life in wartime Japan and demonstrate that 'carnival war' coexisted with total war to promote consumerist desire versus sacrifice, fantasy versus nightmare, and beauty versus horror. Ultimately, Uchiyama argues, this duality helped mobilize home front support for the war effort HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316899823
Subjects	LCSH:Japan -- Civilization -- 1926-1945 All Subject Search LCSH:Popular culture -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:War and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Political culture -- Japan -- 20th century All Subject Search
Classification	LCC:DS822.4 DC23:940.53/52
ID	8000073516
ISBN	9781316899823