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Deleuze, Japanese cinema, and the atom bomb : the spectre of impossibility
- Title
- Deleuze, Japanese cinema, and the atom bomb : the spectre of impossibility / David Deamer.
- Author
- Deamer, David
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xvi, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "David Deamer establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, by exploring how Japanese films responded to and were transformed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the early days of American occupation political censorship through to the social and cultural freedoms of the 1960s and beyond, the book examines how images of the event permeate post-war Japanese cinema. Each chapter begins by focusing upon one of three key themes: taxonomy, history or thought, before going on to explore a broad selection of films from 1945 to the present day, including respected masterpieces (Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, 1951); popular and cult cinema (Godzilla, 1954; world renowned anime, Akira, 1988); the new wave (Nagisa Oshima's Night and Fog in Japan, 1960); and modern classics (Hideo Nakata's Ring, 1998). The author provides a series of monochrome diagrams to clarify and illustrate the concepts and conceptual components explored within the text, establishing a unique addition to Deleuze and cinema studies"--
- Series Statement
- Thinking cinema ; volume 1
- Uniform Title
- Thinking Cinema ; volume 1.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314), filmography (page 315), and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Event, cinema, cineosis -- Special images, contingent centres. Movement-images ; Bergson, sensory-motor process ; The effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1946) ; Children of the atom bomb (1952) ; Godzilla (1954) -- Horizons of history. Action-images ; Nietzsche, history ; Terror of mechagodzilla (1975) ; Lucky dragon no. 5 (1959) ; Barefoot gen (1983) ; Nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) ; Akira (1988) -- Traces : symptoms and figures. Impulse-images and reflection-images ; Peirce, semiosis ; The naked island (1960) ; Dead or alive (1999) ; Ring (1998) ; Kwaidan (1964) ; The face of another (1966) ; Navel and a-bomb (1960) ; Tetsuo (1989) ; Face of Jizo (2004) -- Consummation (and crisis). Mental-images ; Bergson, memory ; I live in fear (1955) ; Rashomon (1950) ; Dreams (1990) ; Rhapsody in august (1991) -- Impure anarchic multiplicities. Time-images ; Deleuze, syntheses of time ; Casshern (2004) ; The Pacific war (1968) ; A history of postwar Japan as told by a bar hostess (1970) ; Black rain (1989) ; Hiroshima (1953) -- Conclusion: Spectres of impossibility.
- Call Number
- MFL 14-6958
- ISBN
- 9781441178152 (hardback)
- 1441178155 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014004627
- OCLC
- 857981613
- Author
- Deamer, David, author.
- Title
- Deleuze, Japanese cinema, and the atom bomb : the spectre of impossibility / David Deamer.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Thinking cinema ; volume 1Thinking Cinema ; volume 1.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314), filmography (page 315), and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- MFL 14-6958