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Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan

Publication ,  Book
Weisenfeld, GS
2023

Gas Mask Nation explores the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable visual culture of Japanese civil air defense—or bōkū—through a diverse range of artworks, photographs, films and newsreels, magazine illustrations, postcards, cartoons, advertising, fashion, everyday goods, government posters, and state propaganda. Gennifer Weisenfeld reveals the immersive aspects of this culture, in which Japan’s imperial subjects were mobilized to regularly perform highly orchestrated civil air defense drills throughout the country.

Duke Scholars

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

University of Chicago Press
 

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Weisenfeld, G. S. (2023). Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Weisenfeld, G. S. Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Weisenfeld GS. Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2023.
Weisenfeld, G. S. Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Weisenfeld GS. Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2023.

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

University of Chicago Press