Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan

by Franz Prichard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231191316
• ISBN13: 9780231191319
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"