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Contents

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Preface xi
  4. Acknowledgments xv
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1. Earthquakes in Japan 13
  7. 2. The Media Scale of Catastrophe 35
  8. 3. Dis aster as Spectacle 83
  9. 4. The Sublime Nature of Ruins 129
  10. 5. Reclaiming Disaster 161
  11. 6. Reconstruction’s Visual Rhetoric 215
  12. 7. Remembrance 255
  13. 8. Epilogue: Afterlives 295
  14. Notes 309
  15. Selected Bibliography 351
  16. Illustrations 369
  17. Index 377
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Preface xi
  4. Acknowledgments xv
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1. Earthquakes in Japan 13
  7. 2. The Media Scale of Catastrophe 35
  8. 3. Dis aster as Spectacle 83
  9. 4. The Sublime Nature of Ruins 129
  10. 5. Reclaiming Disaster 161
  11. 6. Reconstruction’s Visual Rhetoric 215
  12. 7. Remembrance 255
  13. 8. Epilogue: Afterlives 295
  14. Notes 309
  15. Selected Bibliography 351
  16. Illustrations 369
  17. Index 377
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