Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film

ISBN-13: 9780710305299 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

Mick Broderick

Opis

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Introduction, Broderick Mick; Chapter 1 ‘Mono no aware’: Hiroshima in Film, Richie Donald; Chapter 2 The Imagination of Disaster, Sontag Susan; Chapter 3 Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! is U.S., Noriega Chon A; Chapter 4 Emperor Tomato-Ketchup: Cartoon Properties From Japan, Crawford Ben; Chapter 5 Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime, Freiberg Freda; Chapter 6 Depiction of the Atomic Bombings in Japanese Cinema During the U.S. Occupation Period, Hirano Kyoko; Chapter 7 The Body at the Center – The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Norms Abé Mark; Chapter 8 The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa’s Dreams and Rhapsodies, Ehrlich Linda C; Chapter 9 Akira Kurosawa and the Atomic Age, Goodwin James; Chapter 10 Narrative Strategies of Understatement in Black Rain as a Novel and a Film, Dorsey John T., Matsuoka Naomi; Chapter 11 ‘Death and the Maiden’: Female Hibakusha as Cultural Heroines, and the Politics of A-bomb Memory, Todeschini Maya Morioka;

O autorze

Mick Broderick is author of Nuclear Movies (1991), is completing a PhD in apocalyptic narrative and currently works for the Australian Film Commission in Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on nuclear themes in film, and was invited by Physicians for Social Responsibility to co-curate The Atomic Age in Film Series, a retrospective of nuclear cinema screened in Los Angeles throughout 1995.