Divine work, Japanese colonial cinema and its legacy
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Divine work, Japanese colonial cinema and its legacy
（Topics and issues in national cinema, v. 7）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
For many East Asian nations, cinema and Japanese Imperialism arrived within a few years of each other. Exploring topics such as landscape, gender, modernity and military recruitment, this study details how the respective national cinemas of Japan's territories struggled under, but also engaged with, the Japanese Imperial structures. Japan was ostensibly committed to an ethos of pan-Asianism and this study explores how this sense of the transnational was conveyed cinematically across the occupied lands. Taylor-Jones traces how cinema in the region post-1945 needs to be understood not only in terms of past colonial relationships, but also in relation to how the post-colonial has engaged with shifting political alliances, the opportunities for technological advancement and knowledge, the promise of larger consumer markets, and specific historical conditions of each decade.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Colonial Cinema and the Imperial Machine
Chapter One Constructing the Cinematic Japanese Empire: Taiwan and Korea
Chapter Two Nation's in Harmony: Imperial cinema
Chapter Three Landscape and the space of the colonial moment
Chapter Four Army Recruitment Films
Chapter Five Imperial Women
Part Two: Contemporary Manifestations and the Legacy of Empire
Introduction to Part Two
Chapter Six Legacy of Empire
Chapter Seven Japan Remembers, Japan Forgets
Chapter Eight Remembering Nanjing
Chapter Nine Transnational Legacy and Conclusion
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