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  1. Locating Heisei in Japanese fiction and film
    the historical imagination of the lost decades
    Author: Yamada, Marc
    Published: 2020; © 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon

    "This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the 'lost decades' of Japan's Heisei period (1989-2019). Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers and manga artists, the chapters... more

     

    "This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the 'lost decades' of Japan's Heisei period (1989-2019). Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers and manga artists, the chapters examine the work of Urasawa Naoki, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Murakami Haruki, and Shinkai Makoto, among others. Through the work of these cultural figures, the book also explores the struggle to define the history of Heisei -- three decades of economic stagnation, social malaise, and natural disaster. In particular, it explores the dissonance between the dominant history of Japan's recent past and the representation of this past in the popular imagination of the period. In so doing, this book argues that traumatic events from the years leading up to Heisei complicate the narration of a cohesive sense of history for the period, requiring works of fiction and film to explore new connections to the past. Incorporating literary and film theory to assess the works of culture, Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture, society and history"--

     

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    Volltext (URL des Erstveroeffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0429327838; 9781000712438; 1000712435; 9781000712315; 1000712311; 9781000712193; 1000712192; 9780429327834
    Series: Routledge contemporary Japan series
    Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 83
    Subjects: Japanese fiction / Heisei period, 1989- / History and criticism; Motion pictures / Japan / History
    Scope: 1 online resource (153 pages), illustrations
  2. Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film
    The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
    Author: Yamada, Marc
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY

    "This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the 'lost decades' of Japan's Heisei period (1989-2019). Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers and manga artists, the chapters... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the 'lost decades' of Japan's Heisei period (1989-2019). Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers and manga artists, the chapters examine the work of Urasawa Naoki, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Murakami Haruki, and Shinkai Makoto, among others. Through the work of these cultural figures, the book also explores the struggle to define the history of Heisei - three decades of economic stagnation, social malaise, and natural disaster. In particular, it explores the dissonance between the dominant history of Japan's recent past and the representation of this past in the popular imagination of the period. In so doing, this book argues that traumatic events from the years leading up to Heisei complicate the narration of a cohesive sense of history for the period, requiring works of fiction and film to explore new connections to the past. Incorporating literary and film theory to assess the works of culture, Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture, society and history"

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780367345501
    RVK Categories: AP 59463 ; EI 4964
    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series ; 83
    Other subjects: Japanese fiction / Heisei period, 1989- / History and criticism; Japanese fiction / Heisei period; Motion pictures; Japan; History
    Scope: 153 Seiten, Illustrationen