1st Edition
Hibakusha Cinema Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film
Edited By Mick Broderick
Copyright 1996
256 Pages
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Routledge
268 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1996. This collection of works is in response to American film scholar and long-term resident of Japan, Donald Richie, words:’ The Japanese failure to come to terms with Hiroshima is one which is shared by everybody in the world today,’ from over thirty years ago, when responding to the Japanese subgenre of cinema which had dealt with the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.... Read more
Introduction, Broderick Mick; Chapter 1 ‘Mono no aware’: Hiroshima in Film, Richie Donald; Chapter 2 The Imagination of Disaster, Sontag Susan; Chapter 3 Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! is U.S., Noriega Chon A; Chapter 4 Emperor Tomato-Ketchup: Cartoon Properties From Japan, Crawford Ben; Chapter 5 Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime, Freiberg Freda; Chapter 6 Depiction of the Atomic Bombings in Japanese Cinema During the U.S. Occupation Period, Hirano Kyoko; Chapter 7 The Body at the Center – The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Norms Abé Mark; Chapter 8 The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa’s Dreams and Rhapsodies, Ehrlich Linda C; Chapter 9 Akira Kurosawa and the Atomic Age, Goodwin James; Chapter 10 Narrative Strategies of Understatement in Black Rain as a Novel and a Film, Dorsey John T., Matsuoka Naomi; Chapter 11 ‘Death and the Maiden’: Female Hibakusha as Cultural Heroines, and the Politics of A-bomb Memory, Todeschini Maya Morioka;
Biography
Mick Broderick is author of Nuclear Movies (1991), is completing a PhD in apocalyptic narrative and currently works for the Australian Film Commission in Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on nuclear themes in film, and was invited by Physicians for Social Responsibility to co-curate The Atomic Age in Film Series, a retrospective of nuclear cinema screened in Los Angeles throughout 1995.
