Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades

ISBN-13: 9781032086842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Marc Yamada

Opis

This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the "lost decades" of Japan’s Heisei period (1989-2019). Incorporating literary and film theory to assess the works of culture, it will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture, society and history.

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PART 1

Historicizing Heisei

1 Historicizing Heisei in fiction and film

2 Historical referentiality in post-Aum manga

PART 2

Reimagining the history of Heisei

3 Alternate history fictions of Japan’s Lost Era

4 Visualizing a post-bubble Japan in the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi

PART 3

Memory and history in post-Aum fiction and film

5 Rituals of remembering Aum and the URA in film

6 Personal memory and public history in Murakami Haruki’s post-Aum metafiction

PART 4

Revitalizing the past and imagining the future

7 The problem of inheritance in Lost Era coming-of-age film

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O autorze

Marc Yamada is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University, USA. He received his PhD in Japanese Literature and Culture from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.