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Author:   Matthew Edwards
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780786479122

ISBN 10:   0786479124
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   03 July 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface • Matthew Edwards Introduction • Matthew Edwards Prologue: Hiroshima/Nagasaki • Matthew Edwards Part I: Gojira and the Bomb The Rhetorical Significance of Gojira: Equipment for Living Through Trauma • Shannon Stevens Japan Removed: Godzilla Adaptations and Erasure of the Politics of Nuclear Experience • Jason C. Jones Atomic Reaction: Godzilla as Metaphor for Generational Attitudes toward the United States and the Bomb • John Vohlidka Part II: Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1945–2014 Suppression and Censorship: Japanese Cinema During the Occupation • Matthew Edwards Pica-don: Japanese and American Reception and Promotion of Hideo Sekigawa’s Hiroshima • Mick Broderick and Junko Hatori The Shadow of the Bomb in Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another • Tony Pritchard Nuclear Skin: Hiroshima and the Critique of Embodiment in Affairs Within Walls • Julia Alekseyeva The Atomic Bomb Experience and the Japanese Family in Keiji Nakazawa’s Anime Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) • Kenji Kaneko Yuichi and Jizō in Black Rain: Imamura’s Phenomenological Attempt to Render a Hiroshima Wormhole Experience Among His Audience • Keiko Takioto Miller Trauma and Witness in Hideo Nakata’s Ring • Tienfong Ho The Fragile Roots of Memory • Robert McParland Inconceivable Anxiety: Representation, Disease and Discrimination in ­Atomic-Bomb Films • Yuki Miyamoto Kazuo Kuroki and Hisashi Inoue’s Chichi to kuraseba: Remember, Protest and Return to Ordinary Life • Yoshiko Fukushima Breaking the Silence of the Atomic Bomb Survivors in the Japanese Graphic Novel Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and the Film Adaptation • Senjo Nakai The Sound of the Bomb: Gō Shibata’s NN-891102  • Johannes Schönherr Part III: Western Perspectives Hiroshima Films: Cultural Contexts Before, During and After the Cold War • Greg Nielsen and Margaret M. Ferrara Hiroshima: An Interview with Director Roger Spottiswoode • Matthew Edwards White Light/Black Rain: The “Atomic Films” of Steven Okazaki • Matthew Edwards A[nime] Bomb: An Interview with Hibakusha Director Steve Nguyen • Matthew Edwards Hibakusha: Our Life to Live: An Interview with Director David Rothauser • Matthew Edwards All That Remains: An Interview with Ian and Dominic Higgins • Matthew Edwards Appendix: Japanese Titles of Films Referenced in Text About the Contributors Index

Reviews

A valuable contribution --Steve Okazaki, Emmy award winning director; A fascinating and enlightening read -- Ian and Dominic Higgins, film directors; So incredibly honored to be a part of this wonderful collection of essays that explore the extensive collection of stories about the atomic bomb in popular cinema. --Steve Nguyen, film director; A work of immense scholarship and devoted passion --David Rothauser, director.

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Matthew Edwards is a primary school teacher and freelance writer from Cirencester, England. He is the author or editor of numerous books on world cinema.

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