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The art of censorship in postwar Japan /

"In 2002 a manga (comic book) was for the first time successfully charged with the crime of obscenity in the Japanese courts. In The Art of Censorship Kirsten Cather traces how this case represents the most recent in a long line of sensational landmark obscenity trials that have dotted the hist...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cather, Kirsten (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2012.
©2012
Collection:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Lady Chatterley's censor (1951-1957)
  • The legacy of Chatterley : Sade (1961-1969) and beyond
  • Dirt for politics' sake : the Black Snow trial (1965-1969)
  • Dirt for money's sake : the Nikkatsu Roman porn trial (1972-1980)
  • Pornographic adaptations of the classics : The safflower (1948-1950) and The record of the night battles at Dannoura (1970-1976)
  • Kafū : censored, dead or alive (1948-1950, 1973-1980)
  • A picture's worth a thousand words : in the realm of the senses (1976-1982)
  • Japan's first manga trial : Honey room (2002-2007).