[KineJapan] LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT: Yoshikuni Igarashi, “Japan Circa 1959: The High-Growth Economy and the Social Effects of Television.” (June 10)

[Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan]

“Japan Circa 1959: The High-Growth Economy and the Social Effects of
Television.”
Yoshikuni Igarashi (Vanderbilt University)

Friday June 10th, 17:30-19:30

Faculty of Engineering Building 2, Room 93B, The University of Tokyo, Hongo
Campus

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Abstract
In this talk, I will gauge television’s often-underestimated socioeconomic
effects on Japanese society by revisiting the early years of its
introduction, when it was still a newsworthy event. The dramatic
transformation that Japan experienced under the high-growth economy
(1955-1972) was not merely political, social, economic, and cultural, but
also visual. My key claim is that the ways in which individuals saw
themselves in society radically changed amidst the whirlwind of high
growth. They became deeply embedded in the newly emerging national space,
and they were keenly aware of this change. While the viewers acquired
vision as expansive as a television camera’s reach, they also internalized
television’s gaze, turning themselves into the objects of that very gaze.
Put simply, they began to see their own everyday life as if it was on the
television screen. Their life was thus visually linked to the national
drama called “Japan under the high-growth economy,” as it dynamically
unfolded in front of their eyes.

Yoshikuni Igarashi is a specialist in modern Japanese cultural history. He
is the author of *Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese
Culture, 1945-1970* (Princeton University Press, 2000) and *Homecomings:
The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers* (Columbia University Press,
forthcoming in 2016). The radical transformation of Japanese society in the
late 1960s and the 1970s has been the focus of his recent research.

Lecture in English. No prior registration necessary.

The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information
Studies
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
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