Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on the Romanization of Japanese
Introduction
	Framing visual media studies through politicization and depoliticization
	Key themes
		Historicization
		Transnational ties
		Intentionality and agency
		Contemporary issues
	Organization of the chapters
	Politicizing the screen: Japanese visual media
	Note
	Bibliography
Section A: Historical contexts
1. A question of form: dissent and the nouvelle vague
	Notes
	Bibliography
2. Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics: the Abe Sada incident in films
	Immediately after the Abe Sada incident
	After the Second World War
		From the late 1960s to the 1970s
		The 26 February incident on film
		Abe Sada and the 1970s
		Abe Sada on stage
		Abe Sada on film in the late 1990s
		Abe Sada and the twenty-first century
	Bibliography
		Filmography
3. The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless: agency, constraint, and what is "worthy" of film censorship in trans-war Japan
	Production background
	Wartime deletions
	Postwar cuttings
	Traditions of censorship
	Censorship's ghostly traces
	Subtle and not-so-subtle hints of love
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Filmography
4. Tarzan and Japan: racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya
	The birth of Tarzan: colonial mission and pop culture
	Swinging to Japan: Tarzan's reception and reproduction
	Reimagining Tarzan: Yamakawa Sōji and heroic defeat
	Blackboard, white chalk: national fantasies on an African stage
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
Section B: Critique, contestation, and resistance
5. Down in the dumps: Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime
	Tokyo garbage dumping: dirty facts behind metaphors
	Example 1: Dodes'kaden - humanity affirmed through the rubble of imagination
	Example 2: Swallowtail Butterfly - a garbage dump is the only place immigrants feel at home in "Yentown"
	Example 3: Tokyo Godfathers - homeless characters teach the value of "home"
	Conclusion: depoliticized garbage
	Notes
	Bibliography
6. Cinema at the edge of the world: visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi
	Introduction
	Framing the new face of poverty in Japan
	Sketches of Kaitan City: together and alone on a cliff
	My Man: desperation at the edge of the world
	Conclusion: framing and (de)politicizing precarity
	Notes
	Bibliography
7. How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy (2011--2013)
	Introduction
	Departing from post-Fukushima documentary
	NHK's 3.11 archives
	"On the Scene" at Fukushima
	Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy: beyond the annihilated landscape
	Towards a modern political cinema
	The position of the camera(s) and the fictional timeline
	Interviewing, listening, talking
	Talking bodies
	Coda
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Filmography
Section C: Creating the political subject through media
8. The Japanese self-defence forces and cinematic productions: resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence
	Introduction
	Documentaries
	Feature films
	Television dramas
	Anime
	Productions in context: resonances and reverberations
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
9. Politicizing the audience? Film fans' experiences of cinema in the 1960s
	Film organizations and political ideologies in postwar Japan
	Kyoto Kiroku Eiga o Miru Kai: Kyoto society for viewing documentary cinema
	Japanese cinema in the politicized 1960s
	An ethno-history of the politicized cinema audience
	Political cinemas, politicized audiences?
	Cinematic role models for political action
	Cinema as escape, demos as disruption
	"Film allows you to experience things you can't experience in reality"
	Conclusion
	Note
	Bibliography
10. Fading away from the screen: cinematic responses to queer ageing in contemporary Japanese cinema
	Revisiting Hashiguchi Ryōsuke: ageing from youth to early 30s
	Discourses on ageing within the LGBTQ community
	Fading away from the screen
	The rise of kirakira seishun eiga
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index