ISBN:
9781000426007
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Japanese visual media
DDC:
302.230952
Keywords:
Mass media-Political aspects-Japan
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Mass media-Social aspects-Japan
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Popular culture-Political aspects-Japan
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Introduction / Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari -- A question of form : dissent and the Nouvelle vague / Isolde Standish -- Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics : the Abe Sada incident in films / Katsuyuki Hidaka -- The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless : agency, constraint and what is "worthy" of film censorship in trans-war Japan / Iris Haukamp -- Tarzan and Japan : racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya / Deanna T. Nardy -- Down in the dumps : Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime / Alisa Freedman -- Cinema at the edge of the world : visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi / Lindsay Nelson -- How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku documentary trilogy (2011-2013) / Ran Ma -- The Japanese Self-Defence Forces and cinematic productions : resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence / Atsuko Fukuura and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Politicizing the audience? Film fans' experiences of cinema in the 1960s / Jennifer Coates -- Cinematic responses to queer aging / Yutaka Kubo.
Abstract:
"This book uncovers and explains the ways by which politics is naturalized and denaturalized, and familiarized and de-familiarized through popular media. It explores the tensions between state actors such as censors, politicized and non-politicized audiences, and visual media creators, at various points in the history of Japanese visual media. It offers new research on a wide array of visual media texts including classical narrative cinema, television, documentary film, manga, and animated film. It spans the militarized decades of the 1930s and 1940s, through the Asia Pacific War into the present day, and demonstrates how processes of politicization and depoliticization should be understood as part of wider historical developments including Japan's postwar devastation and poverty, subsequent rapid modernization and urbanization, and the aging population and economic struggles of the twenty-first century"
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