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03545aam a2200457 i 4500 001 4B109366851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231117010120 008 220105t20232023ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021061573 020 $a 0226816443 020 $a 9780226816449 035 $a (OCoLC)1295618519 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OBE $d YDX $d TOH $d UKMGB $d APL $d DLC $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ja--- 050 00 $a DS822.4 $b .W45 2023 082 00 $a 952.03/3 $2 23/eng/20220202 100 1 $a Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. $q (Gennifer Stacy), $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a Gas mask nation : $b visualizing civil air defense in wartime Japan / $c Gennifer Weisenfeld. 246 30 $a Visualizing civil air defense in wartime Japan 264 1 $a Chicago, IL : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 400 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 27 cm 520 $a "Gas Mask Nation explores Japanese daily life during the widespread culture of civil defense that emerged through fifteen years of war, beginning with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and only ending with Japan's decisive defeat in WWII. This fifteen-year period involved intense social mobilization and the militarization of citizens. As in nearly every war since the invention of the airplane, surveillance, secrecy, and physical safety became visual symbols of national preparedness and anxiety. Everybody was vulnerable, always. And everybody had a role to play. Prevailing scholarship tends to portray the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Weisenfeld claims otherwise: while not denying the horrors of war, she shows that pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present. Even amidst the fear, tasty caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to futuristic wartime weapons. Gas Mask Nation examines the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable culture of civil air defense through a diverse range of art works and media including experimental and documentary photographs, newsreels, popular magazine illustrations, advertising, cartoons, and state propaganda"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-383) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Selling and consuming total war -- Aviation and Japan's aerial imaginary -- Gas mask parade -- Bombs away! -- Wondrous weapons and future war -- Exhibiting air defense -- Epilogue : afterimages. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Air defenses $x Social aspects $z Japan. 650 0 $a Militarization $z Japan $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Social aspects $z Japan. 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Militarization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919412 650 7 $a Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354981 651 0 $a Japan $x Civilization $y 1926-1945. 651 0 $a Japan $x Social life and customs $y 1912-1945. 651 7 $a Japan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204082 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4B109366851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search