The art of censorship in postwar Japan /
Author / Creator: | Cather, Kirsten. |
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Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2012. |
Description: | x, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | A study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. |
Subject: | Censorship -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. Japanese literature -- 20th century -- Censorship. Fiction -- Censorship -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. Motion pictures -- Censorship -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. Trials (Obscenity) -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. Censorship. Fiction -- Censorship. Japanese literature. Motion pictures -- Censorship. Trials (Obscenity) Japan. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8865334 |
Summary: | In 2002 a manga (comic book) was for the first time successfully charged with the crime of obscenity in the Japanese courts. In The Art of Censorship Kirsten Cather traces how this case represents the most recent in a long line of sensational landmark obscenity trials that have dotted the history of postwar Japan. The objects of these trials range from a highbrow literary translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover and modern adaptations and reprintings of Edo-period pornographic literary "classics" by authors such as Nagai Kafu to soft core and hard core pornographic films, including a collection of still photographs and the script from Oshima Nagisa's In the Realm of the Senses, as well as adult manga. At stake in each case was the establishment of a new hierarchy for law and culture, determining, in other words, to what extent the constitutional guarantee of free expression would extend to art, artist, and audience. |
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Physical Description: | x, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780824835873 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0824835875 (hardcover : alk. paper) |