Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche. From the Occupation Period to the present, Japanese cinema had offered a means of coming to terms with one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. From the monster movies Gojira (1954) and Mothra (1961) to experimental works like Go Shibata's NN-891102 (1999), atomic bomb imagery features in all genres of Japanese film. This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema.…mehr
Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche. From the Occupation Period to the present, Japanese cinema had offered a means of coming to terms with one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. From the monster movies Gojira (1954) and Mothra (1961) to experimental works like Go Shibata's NN-891102 (1999), atomic bomb imagery features in all genres of Japanese film. 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 Go Shibata and critically acclaimed directors Roger Spottiswoode (Hiroshima) and Steven Okazaki (White Light/Black Rain) are included.
Matthew Edwards is a primary school teacher and freelance writer from Cirencester, England. He is the author or editor of numerous books on world cinema.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Matthew Edwards Introduction Matthew Edwards Prologue: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Matthew Edwards Part I: Gojira and the Bomb The Rhetorical Significance of Gojira: Equipment for Living Through Traumä 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 Part II: 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 Hiroshimä 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 Jiz 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 the Japanese Graphic Novel Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and the Film Adaptation Senjo Nakai The Sound of the Bomb: G Shibata's NN-891102 Johannes Schönherr Part III: 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 Appendix: Japanese Titles of Films Referenced in Text About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Matthew Edwards Introduction Matthew Edwards Prologue: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Matthew Edwards Part I: Gojira and the Bomb The Rhetorical Significance of Gojira: Equipment for Living Through Traumä 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 Part II: 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 Hiroshimä 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 Jiz 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 the Japanese Graphic Novel Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and the Film Adaptation Senjo Nakai The Sound of the Bomb: G Shibata's NN-891102 Johannes Schönherr Part III: 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 Appendix: Japanese Titles of Films Referenced in Text About the Contributors Index
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