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portada Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
290
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781107186743
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Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945

Benjamin Uchiyama (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945 - Benjamin Uchiyama

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Synopsis "Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945 "

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.

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