The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory [electronic resource] /
Perkins, Christopher.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Names and Transliteration; 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; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Rengō Sekigun (Japan)
Rengō Sekigun (Japan)
Historiography.
Ethnology—Asia.
Communication.
Japan—History.
Industries.
Aesthetics.
Memory Studies.
Asian Culture.
Media Studies.
History of Japan.
Industries.
Aesthetics.