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Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media, exposing the political underpinnings of mass culture and investigating deeper anxieties over questions of agency and masculinity.

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Japan, 1972 takes an early-seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media, exposing the underpinnings of mass culture and investigating deeper anxieties over agency and masculinity.
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Personal Names Introduction Part I: Television 1. Reflections on the Consuming Subject: The High-Growth Economy and Emergence of a New National Community 2. Circular Vision: The Metavisuality of Television Part II: Travel 3. Japan on the Move, a Family on the Run: Yamada Yoji's Countervision of Contemporary Japan 4. Lost in Transition: Travel, Memory, and Nostalgia in Tsuge Yoshiharu's Travel Manga 5. The Ethics of Witnessing: Kaiko Takeshi's Vietnam War Part III: Violence 6. Heroes in Crisis: The Transformation of Yakuza Film 7. Jo & Hyuma: Kajiwara Ikki's Manga Heroes and Their Violent Quest for Historical Agency 8. Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution Epilogue: Legacies of 1972 Notes Bibliography Index