Overview

Hiroshima and Nagasaki evoke powerful and sombre associations of holocaust and apocalypse, a vision that gave rise to the Japanese subgenre of cinema, ""hibakusha"", which dealt with the atom bombings. Fifty years later, have post-war generations come to terms with the bomb and what ""Hiroshima means? ""Hibakusha Cinema"" focusses critical interest upon a rarely discussed yet vitally important feature of Japanese cinema. Assembled chronologically, the anthology provides an historical approach to the ""hibakusha"" genre within its social context. Rare and older commentary is combined with new writing specially commissioned for this work. The essays explore the ""meta""textuality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki via film and television renderings of ""hibakusha"" experiences, as well as Japanese projections of future nuclear wars. Uniquely, the work assesses both documentary and drama films made under stringent Occupation censorship, the historical docudramas of the 1950s and 1980s, and the prolific, though critically neglected, nuclear monster subgenre and apocalyptic ""manga"" films and videos. The collection represents a potent mix of Japanese and Western (pan-Pacific) scholarship which harnesses multidisciplinary methodologies ranging from close textual analysis, archival and historical argument, anthropological assessment, literary and film comparative analyses through to psychological and ideological hermeneutics.

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Author:   Mick Broderick
Publisher:   Kegan Paul
Imprint:   Kegan Paul
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780710305299

ISBN 10:   071030529
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   08 January 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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 Abé 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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Mick Broderick is author of Nuclear Movies (1991), is completing a PhD in apocalyptic narrative and currently works for the Australian Film Commission in Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on nuclear themes in film, and was invited by Physicians for Social Responsibility to co-curate The Atomic Age in Film Series, a retrospective of nuclear cinema screened in Los Angeles throughout 1995.

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