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Japanese love hotels : a cultural history / Sarah Chaplin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaplin, Sarah.
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 15.
- Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Japan.
- Sex customs.
- Sex industry.
- Japan.
- Sex industry--Japan.
- Prostitution--Japan.
- Prostitution.
- Hotels--Japan.
- Hotels.
- Architecture--Japan.
- Architecture.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Summary:
- Love hotels represent a significant aspect of contemporary Japanese culture, yet, until now, there has been surprisingly little written about them. In this book architect and cultural theorist Sarah Chaplin presents a cultural history of Japanese love hotels, charting the development of the urban love hotel from the late 1950s to the present day, and relating its cultural history to other spaces and earlier forms associated with sexuality, commerce and leisure. The love hotel is characterised as a barometer of social and cultural change in Japan's long post-war period, mirroring economic and psychological fluctuations, while challenging behavioural norms and domestic identities.
- Based on fieldwork covering more than 300 urban love hotels, this compelling study analyses in turn their urban context, their architectural form, their richly wrought interiors, their names and thematic contents, and their emerging status as a cultural industry. Chaplin employs a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on ideas from architecture, anthropology, aesthetics, critical theory, urban design, feminism, linguistics and sociology. Accessible and engaging, this book will appeal to all those who have ever stayed in a love hotel, but will be of particular interest to a wide range of readers who share a common interest in popular culture, semiology and cultural history.
- Contents:
- The urban context of love hotel districts
- The love hotel as a building type
- Images and technologies of the love hotel interior
- Naming and theming the love hotel
- The love hotel industry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-228) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415415853
- 9780415415859
- 0203962427
- 9780203962428
- OCLC:
- 73502259
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