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Title Persistently postwar : media and the politics of memory in Japan / edited by Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Mendez and Dolores P. Martinez
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 198 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary "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 of Japan's past, showing how they have reinforced personal and collective narratives while also formulating new cultural meanings, both on a local scale and in the context of transnational media production and consumption. Drawing upon diverse disciplinary insights and methodologies, these studies collectively offer a nuanced account in which mass media functions as much more than a simple ideological tool"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2019)
Subject 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
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069378
Subject Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Guarné, Blai, editor.
Lozano-Mendez, Artur, editor.
Martinez, D. P. (Dolores P.), 1957- editor.
LC no. 2019000588
ISBN 9781785339608
1785339605