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Gas Mask Nation
- Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Engelsk Hardback

Gas Mask Nation

- Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Engelsk Hardback

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A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II.   Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety, tasty caramels were offered to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashion to futuristic weapons.   Gas Mask Nation explores the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable visual culture of Japanese civil air defense—or boku—through a diverse range of artworks, photographs, films and newsreels, magazine illustrations, postcards, cartoons, advertising, fashion, everyday goods, government posters, and state propaganda. Gennifer Weisenfeld reveals the immersive aspects of this culture, in which Japan’s imperial subjects were mobilized to regularly perform highly orchestrated civil air defense drills throughout the country.   The war years in Japan are often portrayed as a landscape of privation and suppression under the censorship of the war machine. But alongside the horrors, pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present in a period before air raids went from being a fearful specter to a deadly reality.  
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
408
ISBN-13:
9780226816449
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226816443
Udg. Dato:
28 mar 2023
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
263mm
Højde:
188mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
28 mar 2023
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