Persistently Postwar : : Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan / / ed. by Blai Guarné, Dolores P. Martinez, Artur Lozano-Méndez.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
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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