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Atomic Bomb Cinema

2013-05-13 Social Science
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Book Synopsis Atomic Bomb Cinema by : Jerome F. Shapiro

Download or read book Atomic Bomb Cinema written by Jerome F. Shapiro. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema. According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world. www.atomicbombcinema.com

The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema

2018-07-24 Performing Arts
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Release : 2018-07-24
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Book Synopsis The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema by : Matthew Edwards

Download or read book The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema written by Matthew Edwards. This book was released on 2018-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche. From the Occupation Period to the present, Japanese cinema had offered a means of coming to terms with one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. From the monster movies Gojira (1954) and Mothra (1961) to experimental works like Go Shibata's NN-891102 (1999), atomic bomb imagery features in all genres of Japanese film. This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema. The contributors take on a number of complex issues, including the suffering of the survivors (hibakusha), the fear of future holocausts and the danger of nuclear warfare. Exclusive interviews with Go Shibata and critically acclaimed directors Roger Spottiswoode (Hiroshima) and Steven Okazaki (White Light/Black Rain) are included.

Atomic Bomb Cinema

2011 Electronic books
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Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis Atomic Bomb Cinema by : Jerome F. Shapiro

Download or read book Atomic Bomb Cinema written by Jerome F. Shapiro. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hibakusha Cinema

2013-11-05 Social Science
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Release : 2013-11-05
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Book Synopsis Hibakusha Cinema by : Mick Broderick

Download or read book Hibakusha Cinema written by Mick Broderick. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Apocalypse Then

2017-09-14 Performing Arts
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Release : 2017-09-14
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Book Synopsis Apocalypse Then by : Mike Bogue

Download or read book Apocalypse Then written by Mike Bogue. This book was released on 2017-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film. American science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s generally proclaim that it is possible to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Japanese films of the same period assert that once freed the nuclear genie can never again be imprisoned. This book examines genre films from the two countries released between 1951 and 1967--including Godzilla (1954), The Mysterians (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), On the Beach (1959), The Last War (1961) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)--to show the view from both sides of the Pacific.

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