Persistently postwar : media and the politics of memory in Japan

Persistently postwar : media and the politics of memory in Japan / edited by Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Mendez and Dolores P. Martinez.

"From melodramas to experimental documentaries to anime, mass media in Japan constitute a key site in which the nation's social memory is articulated, disseminated, and contested. Through a series of stimulating case studies, this volume examines the political and cultural representations...

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Other Authors: Guarné, Blai (Editor), Lozano-Mendez, Artur (Editor), Martinez, D. P. (Dolores P.), 1957- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Collective memory in mass media.
Mass media and history > Japan.
Mass media and culture > Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Civilization
Collective memory in mass media
Mass media and culture
Mass media and history
Japan > Civilization > 1945-
Japan
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The politics of media and memory representation in Japan / Blai Guarne, Artur Lozano-Mendez, Dolores P. Martinez
  • The death of certainty : memory, guilt and redemption in Ikiru / Dolores P. Martinez
  • Postwar narratives and the avant-garde documentary : Tokyo 1958 and Furyo Shonen / Marcos Centeno Martin
  • Radical subjectivity as a counter to Japanese humanist cinema : Oshima Nagisa's Nuberu bagu / Ferran de Vargas
  • Recreating memory? : the drama Watashi wa kai ni naritai and its remakes / Griseldis Kirsch
  • From myth to cult : tragic heroes, parody and gender politics in the 1960s-1970s 'bad girls' cinema of Japan / Laura Treglia
  • Collective remorse for the past : Japanese film and TV representations of the 1960s student movement / Katsuyuki Hidaka
  • Depicting the persistence of being postwar : Eden of the East / Artur Lozano-Mende
  • Rethinking anime in East Asia : creative labour in transnational production, or, what gets lost in translation / Tomohiro Morisawa
  • Conclusion. The persistence of trauma / Dolores P. Martinez, Blai Guarne and Artur Lozano-Mendez.

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