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Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic Hero
By Isolde Standish
Copyright 2000
242 Pages
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Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
242 Pages
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Routledge
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This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films are based. Two central questions in relation to these post-war Japanese film genres and historical consciousness are addressed: What is the relationship between history, myth and memory? And how are individual subjectivities... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Backgrounds; Chapter 2 The Kamikaze Film and the Politics of the Collective; Chapter 3 Uniformed Politicians: The Enemy Within; Chapter 4 Facts, Fictions and Fantasy; Chapter 5 Conclusions;
Biography
Standish, Isolde
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