Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century - 9781138672222

Taylor & Francis

Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st CenturyConsuming the Past\nAuthor(s): Katsuyuki Hidaka\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138672222, 978-1138672222\nSynopsis\nHailed by Japanese critics as a milestone in the study of contemporary Japanese media, this book explores the contemporary boom in Japanese media representations of the recent past. Recent years have seen the production of an unprecedented number of films, animation, manga, and television programmes representing a deeply nostalgic longing for the Japanese heyday of high economic growth in the 1960s and occasionally the 1970s known in Japan as the Sh?wa 30s and 40s. \n\nHidaka provides a comprehensive account of an under researched contemporary Japanese media phenomenon by exploring why this nostalgia has been sparked at this particular historical juncture and how that period is represented in the Japanese media today. The book accomplishes this th.