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Bloomsbury Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan)

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Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan addresses Japans evolving nationalism and national identity in relation to its newly rising consumerism during the two decades from 1952 to 1972, through a study of the transformation of the print media and the market for weekly and monthly magazines. Martyn Smith argues that the transformation of the print media in the 1950s and 1960s expanded the possibilities for social, individual and national identities in Japan. From the late 1950s, the growth in the market for weekly magazines was fuelled by the huge potential for advertising revenue, the rapid development of the Japanese economy, and the necessity for the growth of a consumer society. This resulted in the merging of national identity with individual subjectivity which this book describes as national subjectivity as the Japanese media promoted individual consumption to aid the recovery of the Japanese nation as a whole. Examining housewife magazines such as Fujin Koron, Fujin no Tomo and Fujin Gaho, as well as news magazines such as Mainichi Graph and Asahi Graph, and publications aimed at young people Shukan Heibon and Heibon Punch Smith shows how the relationship of nationalism to everyday life is best understood by taking into account the changing nature of consumption in the period. By presenting an alternative to the traditional top-down narrative of state-driven economic nationalism, this book therefore makes a unique contribution to the study of postwar Japanese history and Japanese nationalism. Review This wide ranging and innovative work challenges our understanding of how Japanese nationalism reemerged in the postwar period. According to Martyn Smith this process should be analyzed, not in terms of elite discourses and its genealogies, but as a function of national consciousness under the conditions of a global Cold War. This thought-provoking study thus frames the discussion of nationalism around the issues of subjectivity, print capitalism, and everyday life. Smith also makes the case that the 1950s and 1960s were truly pivotal in this process, offering nuanced readings of the debates over national identity during these decades. - --Eric Han, Associate Professor of History, William and Mary University, Williamsburg, USA About the Author Martyn David Smith is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at SOAS, University of London, UK.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350030783
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 April 2018
Listed Since: 13 April 2017

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