Imaging disaster Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. (Gennifer Stacy), 1966-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Edition:1st [ed.].
Series:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 22
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.