Persistently Postwar

Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78533-959-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

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 function as much more than a simple ideological tool.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guarné, Blai

Lozano-Méndez, Artur

Martinez, Dolores P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Politics of Media and Memory Representation in Japan

Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Méndez, and Dolores P. Martinez

PART I: WAR’S AFTERMATH

Chapter 1. The Death of Certainty: Memory, guilt and redemption in Ikiru

Dolores P. Martinez

Chapter 2. Postwar Narratives and the Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyo Shonen

Marcos Centeno Martín

Chapter 3. Radical Subjectivity as a Counter to Japanese Humanist Cinema: Oshima Nagisa’s Nuberu Bagu

Ferran de Vargas

PART II:  THE PAST IN THE PRESENT



Chapter 4. Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa kai ni naritai and Its Remakes

Griseldis Kirsch

Chapter 5. From Myth to Cult: Tragic Heroes, Parody and Gender Politics in the 1960s–1970s ‘Bad Girls’ Cinema of Japan

Laura Treglia

Chapter 6. Collective Remorse for the Past: Japanese Film and TV Representations of the 1960s Student Movement

Katsuyuki Hidaka

PART III:  THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY

Chapter 7. Depicting the Persistence of Being Postwar: Eden of the East

Artur Lozano-Méndez

Chapter 8. Rethinking Anime in East Asia: Creative Labour in Transnational Production, Or, What Gets Lost in Translation

Tomohiro Morisawa

Afterword: The Persistence of Trauma

Dolores P. Martinez, Blai Guarné, and Artur Lozano-Méndez

Über Autor(innen)

Lozano-Méndez, Artur
Artur Lozano-Méndez teaches Japanese Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He holds a doctorate in Translation and Intercultural Studies. His publications include ‘Mamoru Oshii's Exploration of the Potentialities of Consciousness in a Globalised Capitalist Network’ (Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 2015) and El Japón contemporáneo. Una aproximación desde los estudios culturales (2016).

Martinez, Dolores P.
Dolores P. Martinez is an Emeritus Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London and Research Associate at ISCA, University of Oxford.  She has authored and edited numerous books, most recently Assembling Japan (2015), and Gender and Japanese Society (2014) and is co-editor of the Berghahn Books series Asian Anthropologies.

Guarné, Blai
Blai Guarné is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the East Asian Studies Programme at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. His publications include Antropología de Japón (Bellaterra 2017) and Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-first Century (Routledge 2018).

Blai Guarné is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the East Asian Studies Programme at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. His publications include Antropología de Japón (Bellaterra 2017) and Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-first Century (Routledge 2018).