Hailed by Japanese critics as a milestone in the study of
contemporary Japanese media, this book explores the contemporary
'boom' in Japanese media representations of the recent past. Recent
years have seen the production of an unprecedented number of films,
animation, manga, and television programmes representing a deeply
nostalgic longing for the Japanese heyday of high economic growth
in the 1960s and occasionally the 1970s known in Japan as the Showa
'30s and '40s. Hidaka provides a comprehensive account of an under
researched contemporary Japanese media phenomenon by exploring why
this nostalgia has been sparked at this particular historical
juncture and how that period is represented in the Japanese media
today. The book accomplishes this through a detailed textual and
narrative analysis of representative films and television
programmes, in relation to their social and cultural context. While
these nostalgic media renderings are seen by many critics as
innocuous, this study demonstrates that they do not show a simple
yearning for the period, but reflects a growing discontent with
Japanese post-war society. In this regard, this book concludes that
the current nostalgia wave is a critical reaction to the recent
past as it seeks to revise historiography through a processes of
introspection within popular conceptions of the meta narrative of
'nostalgia'. Winner of the Japan Communication Association 2015
Outstanding Book Award.
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