Deleuze, Japanese cinema, and the atom bomb : the spectre of impossibility /
Deamer, David,author.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Introduction: Event, cinema, cineosis -- Special images, contingent centres. Movement-images ; Bergson, sensory-motor process ; The effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1946) ; Children of the atom bomb (1952) ; Godzilla (1954) -- Horizons of history. Action-images ; Nietzsche, history ; Terror of mechagodzilla (1975) ; Lucky dragon no. 5 (1959) ; Barefoot gen (1983) ; Nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) ; Akira (1988) -- Traces : symptoms and figures. Impulse-images and reflection-images ; Peirce, semiosis ; The naked island (1960) ; Dead or alive (1999) ; Ring (1998) ; Kwaidan (1964) ; The face of another (1966) ; Navel and a-bomb (1960) ; Tetsuo (1989) ; Face of Jizo (2004) -- Consummation (and crisis). Mental-images ; Bergson, memory ; I live in fear (1955) ; Rashomon (1950) ; Dreams (1990) ; Rhapsody in august (1991) -- Impure anarchic multiplicities. Time-images ; Deleuze, syntheses of time ; Casshern (2004) ; The Pacific war (1968) ; A history of postwar Japan as told by a bar hostess (1970) ; Black rain (1989) ; Hiroshima (1953) -- Conclusion: Spectres of impossibility.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Motion pictures
Nuclear warfare in motion pictures.
Motion pictures