Persistently Postwar : : Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan / / ed. by Blai Guarné, Dolores P. Martinez, Artur Lozano-Méndez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Centeno Martín, Marcos P.,; Guarné, Blai,; Hidaka, Katsuyuki,; Kirsch, Griseldis,; Lozano-Méndez, Artur,; Martinez, Dolores P.,; Morisawa, Tomohiro,; Treglia, Laura,; Vargas, Ferran de,
• HerausgeberIn: Guarné, Blai,; Lozano-Méndez, Artur,; Martinez, Dolores P.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

From melodramas to experimental documentaries to anime, mass media in Japan constitute a key site in which the nation’s social memory is articulated, disseminated, and contested. Through a series of stimulating case studies, this volume examines the political and cultural representations of Japan’s past, showing how they have reinforced personal and collective narratives while also formulating new cultural meanings, both on a local scale and in the context of transnational media production and consumption. Drawing upon diverse disciplinary insights and methodologies, these studies collectively offer a nuanced account in which mass media function as much more than a simple ideological tool.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- Introduction. The Politics of Media and Memory Representation in Japan -- Part I. War’s Aftermath -- Chapter 1. The Death of Certainty: Memory, Guilt and Redemption in Ikiru -- Chapter 2. Postwar Narratives and the Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyō Shōnen -- Chapter 3. Radical Subjectivity as a Counter to Japanese Humanist Cinema: Ōshima Nagisa’s Nūberu Bāgu -- Part II. The Past in the Present -- Chapter 4. Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes -- Chapter 5. From Myth to Cult: Tragic Heroes, Parody and Gender Politics in the 1960s–1970s ‘Bad Girls’ Cinema of Japan -- Chapter 6. Collective Remorse for the Past: Japanese Film and TV Representations of the 1960s Student Movement -- Part III. The Persistence of Memory -- Chapter 7. Depicting the Persistence of Being Postwar: Eden of the East -- Chapter 8. Rethinking Anime in East Asia: Creative Labour in Transnational Production, or What Gets Lost in Translation -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Trauma -- Index