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Japan's carnival war : mass culture on the home front, 1937-1945 /

This book is about the evolution of mass culture into what I term "carnival war" in Japan, reorienting our perspectives on daily life between 1937 and 1945. Although the Asia-Pacific War created the opportunity for the state to expand its control over society, it also fractured Japanese pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Uchiyama, Benjamin, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Japan > Civilization > 1926-1945.
Popular culture > Political aspects > Japan > History > 20th century.
War and society > Japan > History > 20th century.
Political culture > Japan > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The reporter
  • The munitions worker
  • The soldier
  • The movie star
  • The youth aviator
  • Gendering carnival war
  • Global echoes of carnival war
  • The circus freak next to the policeman.