Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century Consuming the Past 1st Edition by Katsuyuki Hidaka 1315537192 9781315537191
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ISBN 10:1315537192
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Author:Katsuyuki Hidaka
Hailed by Japanese critics as a milestone in the study of contemporary Japanese media, this book explores the contemporary ‘boom’ in Japanese media representations of the recent past. Recent years have seen the production of an unprecedented number of films, animation, manga, and television programmes representing a deeply nostalgic longing for the Japanese heyday of high economic growth in the 1960s and occasionally the 1970s known in Japan as the Shōwa ‘30s and ‘40s. Hidaka provides a comprehensive account of an under researched contemporary Japanese media phenomenon by exploring why this nostalgia has been sparked at this particular historical juncture and how that period is represented in the Japanese media today. The book accomplishes this through a detailed textual and narrative analysis of representative films and television programmes, in relation to their social and cultural context. While these nostalgic media renderings are seen by many critics as innocuous, this study demonstrates that they do not show a simple yearning for the period, but reflects a growing discontent with Japanese post-war society. In this regard, this book concludes that the current nostalgia wave is a critical reaction to the recent past as it seeks to revise historiography through a processes of introspection within popular conceptions of the meta narrative of ‘nostalgia’. Winner of the Japan Communication Association 2015 Outstanding Book Award.
Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century Consuming the Past 1st Table of contents:
1 Background
A path to the past: what is history?
Paradigm shift from history to memory: the rise of memory studies
Previous studies on Shōwa nostalgia
Dilemmas and after-effects of war memories
The war and the past in films
Theoretical framework: how to approach Shōwa nostalgia
2 Yearning for yesterday: is modernity an unfinished project? – Always: Sunset on Third Street and Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Tokyo Tower and its unfinished image
Tokyo Tower in films
Unfinished images and mourning
3 Technology and nostalgia – Project X: Challengers and Hula Girls
Attribution of success to individuals
Marginalized Workers Created a Global Standard and its discontent with post-war society
Hula Girls : male trouble and the empowered female
4 Conflict between ideal self and real self – Twentieth Century Boys and Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: ‘The Adult Empire Strikes Back’
The ideal and the real: Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: ‘The Adult Empire Strikes Back’
The decline of symbolic consumption and the new reality
Ritual of self-examination: the consequences of the past moratorium in Twentieth Century Boys
Expo ’70 as the dark side of post-WWII Japanese society
Pride of the apathy generation and moratorium generation
Conclusions
Critical adherence to the recent past
Japan Airlines and the ‘post-war’
Shōwa nostalgia and the year of 1968
Filmography
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