Hibakusha Cinema
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Antisocial Behavior
Atomic Bomb
Atomic Bomb Film
atomic bomb survivor representation
atomic bomb trauma
Barefoot Gen
Black Rain
Bomb Films
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Civil Censorship Detachment
cultural memory Japan
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Equ Ally
film hermeneutics
Fumio Kamei
Girl Friend
Godzilla Films
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Horror Movie
Human Suffering
Insect Woman
Japanese Film
Japanese Filmmakers
Japanese Monster
Japanese postwar cinema
Kurosawa's Dreams
nuclear trauma studies
occupation period censorship
Pine Apple
Play Back
Schub Ert
Science Fiction Films
Space Battleship Yamato
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780710305299
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 1996
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Three decades on, the question lingers, does this appraisal remain valid? Hibakusha Cinema is an attempt - perhaps momentarily - to reorient critical focus upon a rarely discussed, yet important feature of Japanese cinema. The essays collected here represent a mix of Japanese and western (pan-Pacific) scholarship harnessing multidisciplinary methodologies, ranging from close textual analysis, archival and historical argument, anthropological assessment, literary and film comparative analyses to psychological and ideological hermeneutics.
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.
