Residual Futures : The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan / Franz Prichard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prichard, Franz, Author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects--Japan.

Mass media.

Social ecology--Japan--History.

Social ecology.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Japan.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Urbanization--Japan--History.

Urbanization.

Japan--History--1945-1989.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 20 illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep interest in cities and their problems, and what this rapid change meant for the country. In Residual Futures, Franz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from this intensive urbanization, mapping the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation.Residual Futures examines crucial works of documentary film, fiction, and photography that interrogated Japan's urbanization and integration into the U.S.-dominated geopolitical system. Prichard discusses documentary filmmaker Tsuchimoto Noriaki's portrait of the urban "traffic war" and the remaking of Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics, novelist Abe Kōbō's depictions of infrastructure and urban sociality, and the radical notions of landscape that emerge from the critical and photographic work of Nakahira Takuma. His careful readings reveal the shifting relationships among urban materialities and subjectivities and the ecological, political, and aesthetic vocabularies of urban change. A novel cultural history of critical urban discourse in Japan, Residual Futures brings an interdisciplinary approach to Japanese literary and visual media studies. It provides a vital new perspective on the infrastructural aesthetics and entangled urban and media conditions of the global Cold War.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Prelude to the Traffic War Infrastructural Aesthetics of the Cold War

Chapter Two. Disappearance Topological Visuality in Abe Kōbō's Urban Literature

Chapter Three. Landscape Vocabularies For a Language to Come and the Geopolitics of Reading

Chapter Four. An Illustrated Dictionary of Urban Overflows

Chapter Five. Photography as Threshold and Pathway After Reversion

Chapter Six. Residual Futures

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780231549332

0231549334

OCLC:

1076373533