... the collapse of the shogunate in 1867. It then explores how rapid changes in the early Meiji era generated disillusionments that gave rise to feelings of dislocation and nostalgia, as shown by the artist Kobayashi Kiyochika in his landscape prints of Tokyo. It also discusses the tricentennial celebration...

...This chapter examines the perceived temporal gap between the city and the countryside in Meiji Japan, signified by the lag in the spread of fashions (ryūkō). It first considers how the spread of mass culture triggered moral panic and nostalgia during the Meiji period before...

... at the emergence of a film genre known as the “postwar antiwar film.” The combination of guilt and nostalgia in these films created a formula that was very similar to that of the films produced before the war. The chapter analyzes two films produced after 1945 and set in the final days of empire that replicate...

...This chapter shifts to Sōseki's literary reminiscences of—and memorial to—the Tokyo of his childhood. Selected shōhin episodes highlight the intersection of memory and nostalgia in the construction of a landscape that, together with one's youth, has long since vanished. Moreover...

... Sixteen P’yŏngyang kyŏnggaega Sketch Song of Pyongyang Muk Kyewŏl wŏnhyŏng original form rhythmic cycle UNESCO Pak Chunyŏng Christianity Sŏdo sori Paebaengi kut colonial media preservation human treasure Korea Kugak Korean War nostalgia Sŏdo sori (Folksongs from...

... Gunji Atsunobu Ii Naosuke Funabashi Seiichi A Flower’s Life spy film postwar nostalgia The past is not the exclusive domain of historians and ideologues. Novelists and cinematographers, among others, poach in the preserve of history, if not in the name of accuracy, in the name of action...

...This book explores the ways in which modern forms of nostalgia become articulated in the language of gender and nation by focusing on Meiji Japan. Beginning with the critique of the Westernized Japanese “gentleman” or shinshi, it examines the cultural dimensions of popular...

... such as manicured gardens, ikebana flower arrangement, and paper houses reflect apparent ecological sensitivity to Japanese social life but often contribute to a pervasive form of detachment in urban communities. It also discusses the intersection between conceptions of nature and rural nostalgia and argues...

... the concept of cinematic slowness and address this fascinating phenomenon in contemporary film culture. Providing a critical investigation into questions of temporality, materiality, and aesthetics, and examining concepts of authorship, cinephilia, and nostalgia, the book offers insight into cinematic...

...Chapter six departs from the practice of exploring horizons of identity to test the limits of nostalgia and solastalgia as a critical approach to reading fiction and film, by looking at how both the colonial future and past are remembered. The chapter includes several close readings including...

...Beneath the overelaborated veneer of harmony and peace that Nukulaelae people try so hard to maintain are long-standing conflicts, contradictions, and complexities about how the island should be organized. This chapter examines the basic ideological tension between a “discourse of nostalgia...

...This chapter proposes that Tsai Ming-liang's films are uniquely placed to illuminate the relationship between slowness and cinephilia, and that this relationship is cast within the notion of film authorship and shot through with a dose of nostalgia. By bringing authorship into the discussion...

... of “authenticity” with popular, iconic appeal—may be permanent. Rather than being threatened by the loss of authenticity, however, folksongs retain their appeal, albeit for arguably less practical and more political reasons, such as tourism, nostalgia, and community pride. airport art hanbok Chŏng Tŭngman...

... of Wilderness Pike The Last Frontier Pike Pike Glenville Trezise Percy Bjelke Petersen administration United States Gregory Derek Musgrave Torres Strait Islanders Veracini Lorenzo wildness wildness settler colonialism indigenous people nostalgia nature colonisation I was driving south...

...This book is a historical analysis of the discourses of nostalgia in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan. Through an analysis of the experience of rapid social change in Japan's modernization, it argues that fads (ryūkō) and the desires they express are central...