<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)">Dear All,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)">I am pleased to share that my book ‘Visual Counterculture in Japan’ has recently been published by Bloomsbury. By focussing on predominantly photography and film from the 1960s to the present, the book investigates the complex relationship between visual culture and counterculture in specific political, ideological and cultural contexts.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The central premise of the book is that visuality does not simply record or document counterculture, but rather, that visual processes, techniques and methods have the capacity to actively contribute towards the dynamics of resistance. Given the heightened sense of political tension across the globe, the book provides a timely framework with which scholars can look at images not simply as a visual artifact, but as a political tool that has significant power.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-counterculture-in-japan-9781350203297/" style="color:rgb(150,96,125)">https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-counterculture-in-japan-9781350203297/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)">I am hoping that the book will be of interest to some of you in this group. Feel free to reach out to me for a promo code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)">All the best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)">Marco Bohr</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)">Nottingham Trent University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)">United Kingdom</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(1,10,43)"><a href="mailto:marco.bohr@ntu.ac.uk">marco.bohr@ntu.ac.uk</a></span></p></div><div><br></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><div style="text-indent:0px!important"><div style="text-indent:0px!important"></div></div></span></div></div>