Format:
viii, 288 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
ISBN:
9780786479122
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0786479124
Content:
"This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema. The contributors take on a number of complex issues, including the suffering of the survivors (hibakusha), the fear of future holocausts and the danger of nuclear warfare. Exclusive interviews with critically acclaimed directors are included"--
Content:
"This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema. The contributors take on a number of complex issues, including the suffering of the survivors (hibakusha), the fear of future holocausts and the danger of nuclear warfare. Exclusive interviews with critically acclaimed directors are included"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Prologue: Hiroshima Nagasaki
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Gojira and the bomb. The rhetorical significance of Gojira: equipment for living through trauma
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Atomic reaction: Godzilla as metaphor for generational attitudes toward the United States and the bomb
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Japanese atomic cinema, 1945-2014. Suppression and censorship: Japanese cinema during the occupation
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Trauma and witness in Hideo Nakata's Ring- Tienfong ho: the fragile roots of memory
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Kazuo Kuroki and Hisashi Inoue's Chichi to Kuraseba: remember, protest and return to ordinary life
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Hibakusha: our life to live: an interview with director David Rothauser
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All that remains: an interview with Ian and Dominic Higgins
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Japan removed: Godzilla adaptations and erasure of the politics of nuclear experience
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Pica-don: Japanese and American reception and promotion of Hideo Sekigawa's Hiroshima
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The shadow of the bomb in Hiroshi Teshigahara's The face of another
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Nuclear skin: Hiroshima and the critique of embodiment in Affairs within walls
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The atomic bomb experience and the Japanese family in Keiji Nakazawa's anime Hadashi no gen (barefoot gen)
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Yuichi and Jizo in Black rain: Imamura's phenomenological attempt to render a Hiroshima wormhole experience among his audience
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Inconceivable anxiety: representation, disease and discrimination in atomic-bomb films
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Breaking the silence of the atomic bomb survivors in Japanese graphic novel Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms and the film adaptation
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The sound of the bomb: Go Shibata's nn891102
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Western perspectives. Hiroshima films: cultural contexts before, during and after the Cold War
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Hiroshima: an interview with director Roger Spottiswoode
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White light/Black rain: the "atomic films" of Steven Okazaki
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A[nime] bomb: an interview with Hibakusha director Steve Nguyen
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Atomic reaction: Gojira as metaphor for generational attitudes toward the United States and the bomb
,
Trauma and witness in Hideo Nakata's Ring- Tienfong ho: the fragile roots of memory
,
Japanese atomic cinema, 1945/2014. Suppression and censorship: Japanese cinema during the occupation
,
Kazuo Kuroki and Inoue Hisashi's Chichi to Kuraseba: remember protest and return to ordinary life
,
Prologue: Hiroshima Nagasaki
,
Hibakusha: our life to live: an interview with director David Othauser
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All that remains: an interview with Ian and Dominic Higgins
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781476620206
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Japan
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Film
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Atombombenabwurf
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Atombombenabwurf auf Nagasaki
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Atombombenabwurf auf Hiroshima
Author information:
Edwards, Matthew 1978-
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