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Title

The atomic bomb in Japanese cinema : critical essays / edited by Matthew Edwards.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Edwards, Matthew.

Description

viii, 288 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subjects

• Nuclear warfare in motion pictures
• Motion picture producers and directors > Interviews
• Motion pictures > Japan > History and criticism
• Atomic bomb victims in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: Hiroshima Nagasaki / Matthew Edwards -- 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 -- 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 Jizo 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 Japanese graphic novel Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms and the film adaptation / Senjo Nakai -- The sound of the bomb: Go Shibata's nn891102 / Johannes Schonherr -- 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.

Call Number

MFL 15-5634

ISBN

• 9780786479122 (softcover : acid-free paper)
• 0786479124 (softcover : acid-free paper)
• 9781476620206 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1476620202 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015015609

OCLC

898167588

Title

The atomic bomb in Japanese cinema : critical essays / edited by Matthew Edwards.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Edwards, Matthew.

Research Call Number

MFL 15-5634