The atomic bomb in Japanese cinema
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Matthew Edwards
Publisher: McFarland; McFarland & Company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786479122
Subjects: Nuclear warfare in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion picture producers and directors; Interviews; History and criticism; Atomic bomb victims in motion pictures
Description: "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 critically acclaimed directors are included"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Hiroshima Nagasaki / Matthew Edwards; title: Gojira and the bomb. The rhetorical significance of Gojira: equipment for living through trauma / Shannon Stevens; title: Japan removed: Godzilla adaptations and erasure of the politics of nuclear experience / Jason C. Jones; title: Atomic reaction: Godzilla as metaphor for generational attitudes toward the United States and the bomb / John Vohlidka; title: Japanese atomic cinema, 1945-2014. Suppression and censorship: Japanese cinema during the occupation / Matthew Edwards; title: Pica-don: Japanese and American reception and promotion of Hideo Sekigawa's Hiroshima / Mick Broderick and Junko Hatori; title: The shadow of the bomb in Hiroshi Teshigahara's The face of another / Tony Pritchard; title: Nuclear skin: Hiroshima and the critique of embodiment in Affairs within walls / Julia Alekseyeva; title: The atomic bomb experience and the Japanese family in Keiji Nakazawa's anime Hadashi no gen (barefoot gen) / Kenji Kaneko; title: Yuichi and Jizo in Black rain: Imamura's phenomenological attempt to render a Hiroshima wormhole experience among his audience / Keiko Takioto Miller; title: Trauma and witness in Hideo Nakata's Ring- Tienfong ho: the fragile roots of memory / Robert McParland; title: Inconceivable anxiety: representation, disease and discrimination in atomic-bomb films / Yuki Miyamoto; title: Kazuo Kuroki and Hisashi Inoue's Chichi to Kuraseba: remember, protest and return to ordinary life / Yoshiko Fukushima; title: Breaking the silence of the atomic bomb survivors in Japanese graphic novel Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms and the film adaptation / Senjo Nakai; title: The sound of the bomb: Go Shibata's nn891102 / Johannes Schonherr; title: Western perspectives. Hiroshima films: cultural contexts before, during and after the Cold War / Greg Nielsen and Margaret M. Ferrara; title: Hiroshima: an interview with director Roger Spottiswoode / Matthew Edwards; title: White light/Black rain: the "atomic films" of Steven Okazaki / Matthew Edwards; title: A[nime] bomb: an interview with Hibakusha director Steve Nguyen / Matthew Edwards; title: Hibakusha: our life to live: an interview with director David Rothauser / Matthew Edwards; title: All that remains: an interview with Ian and Dominic Higgins / Matthew Edwards.