Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual

Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep interest in cities and their problems, and what this rapid change meant for the country. In Residual Futures, Franz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from this intensive urbanization, mapping the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation.

Residual Futures examines crucial works of documentary film, fiction, and photography that interrogated Japanâ€™s urbanization and integration into the U.S.-dominated geopolitical system. Prichard discusses documentary filmmaker Tsuchimoto Noriakiâ€™s portrait of the urban â€œtraffic warâ€ and the remaking of Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics, novelist Abe KÅbÅâ€™s depictions of infrastructure and urban sociality, and the radical notions of landscape that emerge from the critical and photographic work of Nakahira Takuma. His careful readings reveal the shifting relationships among urban materialities and subjectivities and the ecological, political, and aesthetic vocabularies of urban change. A novel cultural history of critical urban discourse in Japan, Residual Futures brings an interdisciplinary approach to Japanese literary and visual media studies. It provides a vital new perspective on the infrastructural aesthetics and entangled urban and media conditions of the global Cold War.

Country	USA
Author	Franz Prichard
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780231191319
ISBN	0231191316
Label	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
NumberOfPages	280
PublicationDate	2019-04-23
Publisher	Columbia University Press
ReleaseDate	2019-04-02
Studio	Columbia University Press

Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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