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Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / Miriam Silverberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia Pacific modern ; 1Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.Description: xviii, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520222733 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520222731 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0952/09041 22
LOC classification:
  • DS822.4 .S63 2006
Contents:
Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index.

Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.