This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous...(展开全部)

Frequently explicit, but also tender, sensuous and humorous, even educational, shunga – a euphemism meaning ‘picture of spring’ – celebrates all facets of human sexuality. Hugely popular in Japanese society, such depictions were regarded as entirely natural and are an expression of the refined, pleasure-seeking ‘floating world’ culture for which Edo-period Japan, 
when many of ...(展开全部)

本の内容 浮世絵春画の図像を「誰が（Ｗｈｏ）、どこで（Ｗｈｅｒｅ）、いつ（（Ｗｈｅｎ）、何を（Ｗｈａｔ）、なぜ（Ｗｈｙ）、どのように（Ｈｏｗ）」の六つの観点で章立てし、戸浮世絵師の代表作を中心に紹介。 目次 Ｗｈｏ：多種多様な組み合わせ Ｗｈｅｒｅ：さまざまな場所で Ｗｈｅｎ：四季折々の風物にかこつけて Ｗｈａｔ：春情を誘う家具・道具 Ｗｈｙ：性にまつわる喜怒哀楽 Ｈｏｗ：さまざまな性戯

本の内容 浮世絵春画の図像を「誰が（Ｗｈｏ）、どこで（Ｗｈｅｒｅ）、いつ（（Ｗｈｅｎ）、何を（Ｗｈａｔ）、なぜ（Ｗｈｙ）、どのように（Ｈｏｗ）」の六つの観点で章立てし、戸浮世絵師の代表作を中心に紹介。 目次 Ｗｈｏ：多種多様な組み合わせ Ｗｈｅｒｅ：さまざまな場所で Ｗｈｅｎ：四季折々の風物にかこつけて Ｗｈａｔ：春情を誘う家具・道具 Ｗｈｙ：性にまつわる喜怒哀楽 Ｈｏｗ：さまざまな性戯

In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies. Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and politi...(展开全部)

In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies. Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and politi...(展开全部)

Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the "Origins of Modern Japanese Literature" has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current...(展开全部)

Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the "Origins of Modern Japanese Literature" has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current...(展开全部)