{"product_id":"japan-1972-9780231195546","title":"Japan 1972","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJapan, 1972 \u003c\/i\u003etakes an early-seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media, exposing the underpinnings of mass culture and investigating deeper anxieties over agency and masculinity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoshikuni Igarashi retells the story of 1970s Japan in a startling new way, focusing on the rise of images of masculinity that were both a reaction against the supposed feminization of consumer culture and a product of the new media forms that saturated everyday life. His eminently readable analysis takes us on a fascinating tour of the novel visual cultures that ruled the day—television documentaries, yakuza films, and sports manga, among others. -- Michael Bourdaghs, author of \u003ci\u003eSayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the premise that  Japanese society underwent a radical transformation in the early 1970s—toward the end of high growth but before the oil shock—Igarashi dives deeply into popular culture to show how mass consumerism affected everything from gender identity to hopes for the future. -- Carol Gluck, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eIgarashi’s long-awaited book on consumerist Japan circa 1972 toggles between the broad view and the minute detail with great creativity and insight. The resulting highly textured work spotlights the intimate relationship between consumption and selves in postwar Japan. Importantly, this book changes the way we see and think—of then, but also now. -- Christine R. Yano, author of \u003ci\u003ePink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn evocative and incisive history of how profoundly the high-growth economy transformed postwar Japanese society and culture.  \u003ci\u003eJapan, 1972\u003c\/i\u003e vividly captures feelings of loss, resistance, and disillusionment in a moment of cultural reckoning with the inescapability of mass consumerism. -- Eiko Maruko Siniawer, author of \u003ci\u003eWaste: Consuming Postwar Japan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIgarashi pioneers a new paradigm for understanding the shift in cultural consciousness brought on by the spread of television. This book will interest scholars of all levels, from advanced undergraduates to senior scholars interested in modern Japanese history, cultural studies, social movements, media studies, and popular culture. -- James Dorsey, author of \u003ci\u003eCritical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA must-read for anyone interested in understanding an overlooked but important era. * Monumenta Nipponica *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNote on Personal Names\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Television\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Reflections on the Consuming Subject: The High-Growth Economy and Emergence of a New National Community\u003cbr\u003e2. Circular Vision: The Metavisuality of Television\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Travel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Japan on the Move, a Family on the Run: Yamada Yōji’s Countervision of Contemporary Japan\u003cbr\u003e4. Lost in Transition: Travel, Memory, and Nostalgia in Tsuge Yoshiharu’s Travel Manga\u003cbr\u003e5. The Ethics of Witnessing: Kaikō Takeshi’s Vietnam War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Violence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Heroes in Crisis: The Transformation of Yakuza Film\u003cbr\u003e7. Jō \u0026amp; Hyūma: Kajiwara Ikki’s Manga Heroes and Their Violent Quest for Historical Agency\u003cbr\u003e8. Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Legacies of 1972\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400348606807,"sku":"9780231195546","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231195546.jpg?v=1730470457","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/japan-1972-9780231195546","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}