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Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: [Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22]Publication details: California: University of California Press, 2012Description: xv, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780520271951 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.949952032 23 W426i
Contents:
Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.
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Item type Current library Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Read Japan Project 704.949952032 W426i (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2012 01 Available G000534
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) and index.

Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.

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