EROTIC GROTESQUE NONSENSE

This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humo r of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expa nsionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous photographs fro m this era to capture the spirit, textures, and language of a time when the media reached all classes, connecting the rural social o rder to ...[Read more]