Publications [#331303] of Gennifer Weisenfeld

Books

1. Weisenfeld, GS, Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (2023), University of Chicago Press
   (last updated on 2026/01/21)

   Abstract:
   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.