Jayson Makoto Chun

A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots?

A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973

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Produktbeschreibung

In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 166mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780415976602
• ISBN-10: 041597660X
• Artikelnr.: 22400114

Autorenporträt

Jayson Makoto Chun, raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction to Japanese Television Culture Introduction Part 2:
The History of Japanese Television Culture 1. Prewar Roots of Japanese
Television Culture: Imperial Culture, Media Culture, and Radio 2. Postwar
Media Culture and Japanese Encounters with TV 3. Pro Wrestling and Body
Slams: Early TV as a Mass Event 4. Transforming the Nation: TV Takes Root
in Japan (1957-1963) Part 3: Japanese Interactions with Television 5.
Television Spreads to the Countryside 6. Intellectuals Debate TV: Oya's
"Hundred Million Idiots" and Kato's "Television Culture" 7. Protecting the
Children and Cleaning Up TV 8. Politics as Spectacle: Parades, Pageantry
and Protests 9. Anpo Redux: University Riots and a Hostage Crisis 10.
America in Japanese Television: Family Dramas and Cowboys 11. After the
American Boom: Japanese TV Gains its Independence Part 4: The Meaning of
the Japanese Television Nation Epilogue: Fractured Television Nation