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Propaganda performed : kamishibai in Japan's fifteen year war
- Title
- Propaganda performed : kamishibai in Japan's fifteen year war / by Sharalyn Orbaugh.
- Author
- Orbaugh, Sharalyn
- Publication
- Leiden : Brill, 2015.
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- Description
- xi, 365 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm.
- Summary
- This will be the first scholarly book in English (and the most complete in any language) on kamishibai ("paper theater"), a performance/visual/textual art form that was popular on the streets of Japan from 1930-1970, at times eclipsing even the popularity of movies or manga. After providing an introduction to the form and a history of its development in the 1930s, the study turns to an in-depth exploration of the way kamishibai was used for propaganda purposes by governmental and quasi-governmental agencies during Japan's Fifteen Year War, 1931 to 1945. Three chapters analyze a number of wartime kamishibai plays, divided by the demographic segment to which their specific propaganda messages were addressed: very young children, older boys from poor neighborhoods, rural girls, farmers, male urban shopkeepers, widows, etc. Then the findings from those analyses are incorporated into a consideration of the phenomenology and neurobiology of propaganda: how this particular medium with its unique combination of text, image and performance, and its unique circumstances of consumption (always in a tightly-huddled group of friends, neighbors, schoolmates or workmates) functioned in helping to create the propaganda environment that permeated Japan during the Fifteen Year War.
- Series Statement
- Japanese visual culture ; volume 13
- Uniform Title
- Japanese visual culture ; v. 13.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-352) and index.
- ISBN
- 9789004248823
- 900424882X
- OCLC
- ocn879567628
- 879567628
- SCSB-5787011
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries