Overview

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.

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Author:   Blai Guarné ,  Artur Lozano-Méndez ,  Dolores P. Martinez
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781785339592

ISBN 10:   1785339591
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Politics of Media and Memory Representation in Japan Blai Guarne, Artur Lozano-Mendez, and Dolores P. Martinez PART I: WAR'S AFTERMATH Chapter 1. The Death of Certainty: Memory, guilt and redemption in Ikiru Dolores P. Martinez Chapter 2. Postwar Narratives and the Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyo Shonen Marcos Centeno Martin Chapter 3. Radical Subjectivity as a Counter to Japanese Humanist Cinema: Oshima Nagisa's Nuberu Bagu Ferran de Vargas PART II: THE PAST IN THE PRESENT Chapter 4. Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa kai ni naritai and Its Remakes Griseldis Kirsch Chapter 5. From Myth to Cult: Tragic Heroes, Parody and Gender Politics in the 1960s-1970s 'Bad Girls' Cinema of Japan Laura Treglia Chapter 6. Collective Remorse for the Past: Japanese Film and TV Representations of the 1960s Student Movement Katsuyuki Hidaka PART III: THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY Chapter 7. Depicting the Persistence of Being Postwar: Eden of the East Artur Lozano-Mendez Chapter 8. Rethinking Anime in East Asia: Creative Labour in Transnational Production, Or, What Gets Lost in Translation Tomohiro Morisawa Afterword: The Persistence of Trauma Dolores P. Martinez, Blai Guarne, and Artur Lozano-Mendez

Reviews

Persistently Postwar uses a variety of detailed case studies to demonstrate how the contested legacy of the Asia-Pacific War has helped to shape the artistic and intellectual life of postwar Japan. This thought-provoking and highly readable collection of essays leaves the reader with deep insights into not only depictions of war in Japanese popular culture, but also how the war has affected broader cultural production from yakuza films to the anime industry. - Philip Seaton, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Author Information

Blai Guarné is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the East Asian Studies Programme at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. His publications include Antropología de Japón (Bellaterra 2017) and Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-first Century (Routledge 2018).

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