1st Edition
Japanese Visual Media Politicizing the Screen
Introduction
JENNIFER COATES AND EYAL BEN- ARI
SECTION A
Historical contexts
1 A question of form: dissent and the nouvelle vague
ISOLDE STANDISH
2 Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics: the Abe Sada incident in films
KATSUYUKI HIDAKA
3 The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless: agency, constraint, and what is "worthy" of film censorship in trans-war Japan
IRIS HAUKAMP
4 Tarzan and Japan: racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya
DEANNA T. NARDY
SECTION B
Critique, contestation, and resistance
5 Down in the dumps: Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime
ALISA FREEDMAN
6 Cinema at the edge of the world: visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi
LINDSAY NELSON
7 How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy
(2011–2013)
RAN MA
SECTION C
Creating the political subject through media
8 The Japanese self-defence forces and cinematic productions: resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence
ATSUKO FUKUURA AND EYAL BEN-ARI
9 Politicizing the audience? Film fans’ experiences of cinema in the 1960s
JENNIFER COATES
10 Fading away from the screen: cinematic responses to queer ageing in contemporary Japanese cinema
YUTAKA KUBO
Biography
Jennifer Coates is a senior lecturer in Japanese studies in the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Eyal Ben-Ari is director of the Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace, Israel.
