Imaging disaster [electronic resource] : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia--local studies/global themes ; 22Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.Edition: 1st [ed.]Description: xv, 393 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 704.9/49952032 23
LOC classification:
  • NX584.A1 W45 2012eb
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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 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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