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Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan (Paperback)
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Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years
and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship
laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has
remained constant through these many upheavals has been the process
of negotiation between censor and artist that can be seen across
the cultural media of modern society. By exploring censorship in a
number of different Japanese art forms - from popular music and
kabuki performance through to fiction, poetry and film - across a
range of historical periods, this book provides a striking picture
of the pervasiveness and strength of Japanese censorship across a
range of media; the similar tactics used by artists of different
media to negotiate censorship boundaries; and how censors from
different systems and time periods face many of the same problems
and questions in their work. The essays in this collection
highlight the complexities of the censorship process by
investigating the responsibilities and choices of all four groups -
artists, censors, audience and ideologues - in a wide range of case
studies. The contributors shift the focus away from top-down
suppression, towards the more complex negotiations involved in the
many stages of an artistic work, all of which involve movement
within boundaries, as well as testing of those boundaries, on the
part of both artist and censor. Taken together, the essays in this
book demonstrate that censorship at every stage involves an act of
human judgment, in a context determined by political, economic and
ideological factors. This book and its case studies provide a
fascinating insight into the dynamics of censorship and how these
operate on both people and texts. As such, it will be of great
interest to students and scholars interested in Japanese studies,
Japanese culture, society and history, and media studies more
generally.
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