Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War

ISBN-13: 9781138791039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 186 str.

King-Fai Tam; Timothy Y. Tsu; Sandra Wilson

Opis

This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the war is remembered in both countries, including the demonisation of Japanese soldiers in postwar socialist-era Chinese movies, and the pervasive sense of victimhood in Japanese memories of the war. However, it also shows how some Chinese directors were experimenting with alternatives interpretations of the war from as early as the 1950s, and how, despite the resurgence of nationalism in japan since the 1980s, the production of Japanese movies critical of the war has continued.

Spis treści

1. The Second World War in Post-War Chinese and Japanese Film  2. A Genealogy of Anti-Japanese Protagonists in Chinese War Films, 1949-2011  3. Film, Ethnic Minorities, and the Anti-Japanese War: An Analysis of The Muslim Detachment and Jin Yuji  4. The Sino-Japanese War in Ip Man: From Miscommunication to Poetic Combat  5. War, Horror and Trauma: Japanese Atrocities on Chinese Screens  6. Documentaries as Historical Text: the Emergence of the East River Column on the Hong Kong Television Screen  7. The Theme of Salvation in Chinese and Japanese War Movies  8. Establishing the Genre of the Revisionist War Film: The Shin-Tōhō Body of Post-Occupation War Films in Japan  9. Wild, Wild War: Okamoto Kihachi and the Politics of the Desperado Films  10. Japan’s Longest Days: Tōhō and the Politics of War Memory, 1967-1972  11. The Himeyuri Film Cycle: Cultural Change and Remakes of an Okinawan Tragedy  12. What is There to Laugh About? University of Laughs as an Anti-War Film Comedy  13. A Past to be Ashamed or Proud of? Echoes of the Fifteen-Year War in Japanese Film

O autorze

King-fai Tam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Timothy Y. Tsu is a Professor in the School of International Studies at Kwansei Gaukuin University, Japan.

Sandra Wilson is a Professor in the School of Arts and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Australia.