Japan, 1972 : : Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism / / Yoshikuni Igarashi.
By the early 1970s, Japan had become an affluent consumer society, riding a growing economy to widely shared prosperity. In the aftermath of the fiery political activism of 1968, the country settled down to the realization that consumer culture had taken a firm grip on Japanese society. Japan, 1972...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on Personal Names
- Introduction
- PART ONE Television
- 1 Reflections on the Consuming Subject: The High- Growth Economy and the Emergence of a New National Community
- 2 Circular Vision: The Metavisuality of Television
- PART TWO Travel
- 3 Japan on the Move, a Family on the Run: Yamada Yōji’s Countervision of Contemporary Japan
- 4 Lost in Transition: Travel, Memory, and Nostalgia in Tsuge Yoshiharu’s Travel Manga
- 5 The Ethics of Witnessing: Kaikō Takeshi’s Vietnam War
- PART THREE Violence
- 6 Heroes in Crisis: The Transformation of Yakuza Film
- 7 Jō and Hyūma: Kajiwara Ikki’s Manga Heroes and Their Violent Quest for Historical Agency
- 8 Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution
- Epilogue Legacies of 1972
- Note
- Bibliography
- Index