03052nam a2200409 i 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003201000170007302000180009002000190010803500130012704000460014004200080018604300120019405000230020608200170022910000470024624000170029324501270031025000290043726000840046630000450055050001770059550400670077250501970083952010650103652600080210165000770210965000580218665000510224465100430229585200400233894200120237899900170239095202350240745853BD-DhAAL20260607175443.0260607t20202019enka     b    001 0 eng c  a  2018061283  a9781107186743  a 9781316637449  a20878560  aLBSOR/DLCbengcLBSORerdadDLCdBD-DhAAL  apcc  aa-ja---00aDS822.4b.U25 201900a940.53522231 aUchiyama, Benjamin,d1979-eauthor.96109110aCarnival war10aJapan's carnival war :bmass culture on the home front, 1937-1945 /cBenjamin Uchiyama, University of Southern California.  aFirst paperback edition.  aCambridge, United Kingdom ;aNew York, NY :bCambridge University Press,c2020.  axii, 280 pages :billustrations ;c23 cm  aRevision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2013, titled Carnival war : a cultural history of wartime Japan, 1937-1945.
First published 2019.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.0 aThe reporter -- The munitions worker -- The soldier -- The movie star -- The youth aviator -- Gendering carnival war -- Global echoes of carnival war -- The circus freak next to the policeman.  a"This book is about the evolution of mass culture into what I term "carnival war" in Japan, reorienting our perspectives on daily life between 1937 and 1945. Although the Asia-Pacific War created the opportunity for the state to expand its control over society, it also fractured Japanese people's sense of identity, which spilled out through a cultural framework which, this book will argue, is best understood as carnival war. Carnival war encompassed both "official" cultural practices shining in the spotlight and "unofficial" cultural practices lurking in the shadows. It requires thinking not only about the activities of official purveyors of entertainment like Kinoshita Circus, but also the "ghetto" circus, the half-man, half-dog circus freaks who echoed, mocked, and inverted the pristine, official national culture the wartime state was trying to build. Second, a study of carnival war examines the unevenness of state attempts to mobilize society for war; the dynamic, improvisational dimension to total war mobilization"--cProvided by publisher.8 aAAL 0aPopular culturexPolitical aspectszJapanxHistoryy20th century.961092 0aWar and societyzJapanxHistoryy20th century.961093 0aPolitical culturezJapany20th century.961094 0aJapanxCivilizationy1926-1945.9610951 aAyesha Abed LibrarycGeneral Stacks  2ddccBK  c48039d48039  00102ddc4070aBRACULbBRACULd2026-06-07eDonated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation.l0o940.5352 UCHp3010045853r2026-06-07t1w2026-06-07yBK