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Contents List of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 By Way of a Preface 000 Introduction 000 Part I. Japanese Modern Times Japanese Modern within Modernity 000 Placing the Consumer-Subject within Mass Culture 000 Erotic Grotesque Nonsense as Montage 000 Japanese Modern Culture as Politics 000 The Documentary Impulse 000 Part II. Japanese Modern Sites 1. The Modern Girl as Militant (Movement on the Streets) 000 Identifying the Modern Girl 000 What Did She Do? 000 What Made the Modern Girl Do What She Did? 000 2. The Cafø Waitress Sang the Blues 000 Eroticizing the Modern Japanese Cafø Waitress 000 Documenting the Cafø Waitress 000 A New Study of the Everyday Life of the Cafø Waitress 000 A Close Look at Ginza 000 "Tale of Wandering" 000 How the Japanese Cafø Waitress Sang the Blues 000 3. Friends of the Movies (From Ero to Empire) 000 Ero 000 Ero at the Movies 000 Toward Empire 000 4. The Household Becomes Modern Life 000 The Family-State of Shufu no Tomo 000 Wives and Husbands (the Shufu in Fjfu) 000 The Fjfu in Discord/Household in Discord 000 Women at Work 000 Modern Times for the Housewife 000 Part III. Asakusa / Honky-Tonk Tempo 1. Asakusa Eroticism 000 Gonda Yasunoke's Asakusa 000 Soeda Azenbo's Asakusa 000 Kawabata Yasunari's Asakusa 000 Iwasaki Akira's Pork Cutlet Problem (Hollywood as Fantasy) 000 Ozaki Midori (Love for a Cane and a Hat) 000 2. Down-and-Out Grotesquerie 000 Beggar Culture 000 Vagrant Culture 000 Juvenile Delinquents 000 The Hawkers 000 Foreigners as Freaks 000 3. Modern Nonsense 000 The Irony of Parody 000 The "Casino Folies" Affirms the False 000 Letting Go of The Modern / Charlie Left Behind 000 Freeze Frames (An Epilogue in Montage) 000 Tempo (1931) 000 Gestures (1932) 000 Code-Switch (1936) 000 The Parody of Comedy (1940) 000 Asakusa Memories (The 1970s and 1980s) 000 The Return of the Modern Girl (The 1990s) 000 Giving the Modern Girl Her Due 000 The End 000 List of Abbreviations 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Popular culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- Civilization -- 1912-1926.
Japan -- Civilization -- 1926-1945.