Programming a Public Mediascape: Distribution and the Japanese Motion Pictures Experience

This essay sheds light on how a film distribution apparatus, which aimed to cater to the entire population as one, in effect ushered in a process of collectivization of cultural life experience, as well as media aesthetics, in postwar Japan. While public discourses on nationhood were discouraged i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rea Amit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2019-12-01
Series:On_Culture
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Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-8/public-mediascape/