Japanese visual media : politicizing the screen / [edited by] Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben Ari.

"This book uncovers and explains the ways by which politics is naturalized and denaturalized, and familiarized and de-familiarized through popular media. It explores the tensions between state actors such as censors, politicized and non-politicized audiences, and visual media creators, at vario...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Coates, Jennifer (Assistant professor) (Editor), Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Series:Routledge culture, society, business in East Asia series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari
  • A question of form : dissent and the Nouvelle vague / Isolde Standish
  • Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics : the Abe Sada incident in films / Katsuyuki Hidaka
  • The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless : agency, constraint and what is "worthy" of film censorship in trans-war Japan / Iris Haukamp
  • Tarzan and Japan : racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya / Deanna T. Nardy
  • Down in the dumps : Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime / Alisa Freedman
  • Cinema at the edge of the world : visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi / Lindsay Nelson
  • How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku documentary trilogy (2011-2013) / Ran Ma
  • The Japanese Self-Defence Forces and cinematic productions : resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence / Atsuko Fukuura and Eyal Ben-Ari
  • Politicizing the audience? Film fans' experiences of cinema in the 1960s / Jennifer Coates
  • Cinematic responses to queer aging / Yutaka Kubo.