Propaganda performed : kamishibai in Japan's fifteen year war
by
Orbaugh, Sharalyn, author.
Title
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Propaganda performed : kamishibai in Japan's fifteen year war
Kamishibai in Japan's fifteen year war
Japanese visual culture ;
Author
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Orbaugh, Sharalyn, author.
ISBN
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9789004248823
Personal Author
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Orbaugh, Sharalyn, author.
Publication Information
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
Physical Description
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xi, 365 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Series
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Japanese visual culture ; volume 13
Japanese visual culture ; v. 13.
Abstract
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This will be the first scholarly book in English (and the most complete in any language) on kamishibai ("paper theater"), a performance/visual/textual art form that was popular on the streets of Japan from 1930-1970, at times eclipsing even the popularity of movies or manga. After providing an introduction to the form and a history of its development in the 1930s, the study turns to an in-depth exploration of the way kamishibai was used for propaganda purposes by governmental and quasi-governmental agencies during Japan's Fifteen Year War, 1931 to 1945. Three chapters analyze a number of wartime kamishibai plays, divided by the demographic segment to which their specific propaganda messages were addressed: very young children, older boys from poor neighborhoods, rural girls, farmers, male urban shopkeepers, widows, etc. Then the findings from those analyses are incorporated into a consideration of the phenomenology and neurobiology of propaganda: how this particular medium with its unique combination of text, image and performance, and its unique circumstances of consumption (always in a tightly-huddled group of friends, neighbors, schoolmates or workmates) functioned in helping to create the propaganda environment that permeated Japan during the Fifteen Year War.
Subject Term
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Kamishibai -- History and criticism.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Propaganda.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Art and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Propaganda.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Art and the war.
Propaganda, Japanese -- History -- 20th century.
War and theater -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
War and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Geographic Term
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Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1945.
Portion Title
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Kamishibai in Japan's fifteen year war
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-352) and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 南院 10419073 PN1979.K3 O73 st
Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPMSB | PN1979 K3 O73 2015 | 10419073 | 1 | B | *南院西文圖書 |