Stone Bridge Press
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Viewed sideways; essays on culture and style in contemporary Japan.
Richie, Donald.
Stone Bridge Press, ©2011 280 p. $16.95 DS822
978-1-933330-98-3
This collection of essays on Japanese culture by film, style and culture critic Donald Richie, provides insight into a wide variety of popular cultural trends, collected over some fifty years of living in, and observing Japan. The volume includes eleven works from previous collections as well as twenty six new writings and discusses such subjects as Japanese design, sexual culture, self and cultural expression in Japan, nostalgic trends and car culture, and Japanese film. Several of the previously published works have been revised and edited or expanded. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
