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Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's great earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: [Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22]Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.Description: xv, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780520271951
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.949952032 23
LOC classification:
  • NX584.A1 W45 2012
Contents:
Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) and index.

Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.

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