Capture Japan : visual culture and the global imagination from 1952 to the present /: visual culture and the global imagination from 1952 to the present. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marco Bohr.
• Editors: Bohr, Marco, 1978-
• Contents: List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsNote on Text and Translation Introduction, Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Part One: SignsIntroduction to Part One, Marco Bohr1. Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville's Cinematic Japan, Miyao Daisuke (University of California, USA)2. Dreaming of Mexico: Japanese Artists Discover the Other, Ramona Bajema (Japan Society, USA)3. Re/Placing Barthes in the Post-Bubble Era: Youthful Disaffection, Online Fandom, and the Reoriented Visions of 'Japan' in Iwai Shunji's All About Lily Chou-Chou, Man-tat Terence Leung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Part Two: MythsIntroduction to Part Two, Marco Bohr4. The 'Last Japanese Soldier': Putting the Nation into Play, Martin Picard (Leipzig University, Germany) and Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)5. Sugimoto Hiroshi and the Emergence of a Geopolitical 'Japanese style', Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK)6. Japan as an 'erotic paradise' in the Sino-Japanese mobility context: ethnographic encounters, Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield, UK) Part Three: RuinsIntroduction to Part Three, Marco Bohr7. Shadows of the Atomic Bombings in The Family of Man: The American photographic exhibition tour of Japan in the post-occupation period, Takenaka Yumi Kim (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)8. Fractured Land, Then and Now: The Resurgence of Ruins in the 1996 Japan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Carrie L. Cushman (University of Hartford, USA)9. Burnt Dresses Left for the Future – Ishiuchi Miyako's photographic series????/hiroshima (2007–present), Hagiwara Hiroko (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Part Four: TransformationsIntroduction to Part Four, Marco Bohr10. Representing Japan: Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping in the many Careers of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield, UK)11. Myth, Manga, Technology and Gender: Chobits and the Postwar Pygmalion, Selma A. Purac (Western University, Canada)12. Personal Connections and Global Relations: Staging 'Japan of the Imagination' in the 1980s, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 952.04; Art, Japanese -- 20th century; Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350186804; 9781350186781
• Related ISBNs: 9781350186798
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