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Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan / Franz Prichard.
LIBRA HT243.J3 P75 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prichard, Franz, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Japan.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Social ecology.
- History.
- Urbanization.
- Japan.
- Urbanization--Japan--History.
- Social ecology--Japan--History.
- Mass media--Social aspects--Japan.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Japan--History--1945-1989.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The first book-length study of the ways in which filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with Japan's urbanization and integration into the U.S. geopolitical system in the 1960s and 70s. The works Prichard discusses in this book tell a story of radical criticism, thought, and cultural practice at a time of rapid change in Japan and across East Asia. In the first chapter, Prichard examines the documentary filmmaker Tsuchimoto Noriaki's engagement with the dispossession effected by the material remaking of Tokyo ahead of the 1964 Olympics. Chapter two undertakes a "topological analysis" of Abe Kobo's late-1960s writings, focusing on the themes of anonymity and urban sociality. In the last three chapters, Prichard explores the critical and photographic work of Nakahira Takuma, who elaborates, along with other critics with whom he enters into dialogue, what Prichard calls "a radical discourse of landscape"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prelude to the traffic war : infrastructural aesthetics of the Cold War
- Disappearance : topological visuality in Abe Kobo's urban literature
- Landscape vocabularies : for a language to come and the geopolitics of reading from Topoi to media
- An illustrated dictionary of urban overflows
- Photography as threshold and pathway after reversion
- Residual futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Prichard, Franz, 1976- author. Residual futures
- ISBN:
- 9780231191302
- 0231191308
- 0231191316
- 9780231191319
- OCLC:
- 1057761437
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