Christopher Perkins

The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and the Politics of Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-48034-7
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 147
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781137480347
• ISBN-10: 1137480343
• Artikelnr.: 43338903

Autorenporträt

Christopher Perkins is Lecturer in Japanese in the department of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Royal Holloway University of London and has published articles and book chapters on Japanese media, memory politics, cinema, and border politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The URA
politics and the aesthetics of memory 2. The Japanese New Left and the URA 3. A spectacle of sex
violence and madness 4. Horror
sympathy and empathy 5. The Image
Seeing and the Siege 6. Conclusion

Rezensionen

"In this important treatment of Japanese cinematic memory texts dealing with the United Red Army, Chris Perkins brings together politics, aesthetics and history to offer a new interpretation of how the events surrounding the United Red Army's descent into violence have been represented and read as an ongoing trauma for Japanese society, and for the Left in particular. The dominant aesthetic of politicised and gendered ky?ki (madness) surrounding the URA creates through its universalism a 'trap'; violence and madness appear to be the natural ends of all left wing politics. Perkins traces the emergence of this dominant aesthetic alongside resistant processes. In doing so, he offers a new and challenging take on the generalised 'trouble with history' in Japan - the desire to suppress the past and the simultaneous searching in history for political relevance for the present condition." - Mark Pendleton, University of Sheffield, UK