Persistently Postwar: Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan

Persistently Postwar: Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
ISBN-10
1785339605
ISBN-13
9781785339608
Category
Social Science
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2019-03-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Dolores P. Martinez, Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Méndez

Description

From melodramas to experimental documentaries to anime, mass media in Japan constitute a key site in which the nation’s social memory is articulated, disseminated, and contested. Through a series of stimulating case studies, this volume examines the political and cultural representations of Japan’s past, showing how they have reinforced personal and collective narratives while also formulating new cultural meanings, both on a local scale and in the context of transnational media production and consumption. Drawing upon diverse disciplinary insights and methodologies, these studies collectively offer a nuanced account in which mass media functions as much more than a simple ideological tool.

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