Hibakusha cinema : Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the nuclear image in Japanese film
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Hibakusha cinema : Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the nuclear image in Japanese film
(Japanese studies)
Kegan Paul International , Distributed by J. Wiley , Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
First Published in 1996. This collection of works is in response to American film scholar and long-term resident of Japan, Donald Richie, words:' The Japanese failure to come to terms with Hiroshima is one which is shared by everybody in the world today,' from over thirty years ago, when responding to the Japanese subgenre of cinema which had dealt with the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three decades on, the question lingers, does this appraisal remain valid? Hibakusha Cinema is an attempt - perhaps momentarily - to reorient critical focus upon a rarely discussed, yet important feature of Japanese cinema. The essays collected here represent a mix of Japanese and western (pan-Pacific) scholarship harnessing multidisciplinary methodologies, ranging from close textual analysis, archival and historical argument, anthropological assessment, literary and film comparative analyses to psychological and ideological hermeneutics.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Broderick Mick
- Chapter 1 'Mono no aware': Hiroshima in Film, Richie Donald
- Chapter 2 The Imagination of Disaster, Sontag Susan
- Chapter 3 Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! is U.S., Noriega Chon A
- Chapter 4 Emperor Tomato-Ketchup: Cartoon Properties From Japan, Crawford Ben
- Chapter 5 Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime, Freiberg Freda
- Chapter 6 Depiction of the Atomic Bombings in Japanese Cinema During the U.S. Occupation Period, Hirano Kyoko
- Chapter 7 The Body at the Center - The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Norms Abe Mark
- Chapter 8 The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa's Dreams and Rhapsodies, Ehrlich Linda C
- Chapter 9 Akira Kurosawa and the Atomic Age, Goodwin James
- Chapter 10 Narrative Strategies of Understatement in Black Rain as a Novel and a Film, Dorsey John T., Matsuoka Naomi
- Chapter 11 'Death and the Maiden': Female Hibakusha as Cultural Heroines, and the Politics of A-bomb Memory, Todeschini Maya Morioka
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