Visual Counterculture in Japan
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Visual Counterculture in Japan

Political Shifts and the Dynamics of Resistance

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eBook - ePub

Visual Counterculture in Japan

Political Shifts and the Dynamics of Resistance

About this book

This book presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day. Adopting a thematic approach, this interdisciplinary text deconstructs the role that visual practices played in shaping a variety of countercultural discourses related to politics, gender, identity, sexuality, censorship, ethics and disasters. The book makes the case that visual practices do not merely function as a way to record counterculture, but that such practices are in themselves contributing to dynamics of resistance. By considering a wide range of artists, photographers, film makers and practitioners, the book focuses on the way that visual culture transgresses, subverts or in the very least questions assumed socio-cultural boundaries in Japan. In doing so, the book foregrounds the crucial role that images play in our society today. Images are no just depictions of political shifts as and when they do occur, but they form part of this very shift in their own right. The book also highlights the interconnectedness between various visual practices and how they fit into wider geopolitical considerations on a global scale.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Plates
  6. List of Figures
  7. Note on Text And Translation
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introducing Visual Counterculture in Japan
  10. 2 Protest and Visual Culture: A Radical New Vision Emerging in the 1960s
  11. 3 Visual Counterculture and Okinawa: On the Fringes of the Nation State
  12. 4 Testing the Boundaries: Obscenity, Censorship and Visual Counterculture
  13. 5 Youth Cultures, Subcultures and the Rise of New Visual Practices in the 1990s
  14. 6 Performing, Deconstructing and Subverting Cuteness in Visual Culture
  15. 7 Visual Counterculture in the Aftermath of the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Plates
  21. Copyright