Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Consuming the Past [1 ed.] 9781134988846

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Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Consuming the Past [1 ed.]
 9781134988846

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Japanese names and the Romanization of Japanese words
Introduction: myths about nostalgia
The social phenomenon of Shōwa nostalgia
What is Shōwa nostalgia?
Problems with the Shōwa nostalgia as depicted by journalism
Nostalgia as a public threat
Myths about nostalgia
The main contents of this book
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
Bibliography
Index

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