Seven scholars and a filmmaker contribute to this special issue. Their essays analyze a wide range of postwar cultural histories. Also included in the publication is the translation of a fictional work by Medoruma Shun. Biographies of the contibutors are provided.
The Review of Japanese Culture and Society is an annual English-language journal dedicated to the critical analysis of Japanese culture using thematic and interdisciplinary approaches.
Unfinished Business: The Endless Postwar in Japanese Cinema and Visual Culture
Onsite
English
2009
In print
09134700
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Introduction - Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
The Defeated Have No Images - Had Television Existed at the End of the War (translated by Sachiko Mizuno) - Nagisa OSHIMA, 大島渚
The Postwar Japanese Melodrama (translated by Bianca Briciu) - Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War - Nostalgia and Restoration in Okura Mitsugu's 'Emperor Film' (translated by Dariko Kuroda-Baskett) - Iwamoto KENJI
Visual Historiography in Japanese Photographic Collections of the Postwar Era - Hideaki FUJIKI
A Portrait of Emperor Hirohito: Sokurov's The Sun (translated by Asato Ikeda) - Inuhiko YOMOTA, 四方田 犬彦
'Genjitsu' (Reality) / 'Riariti' (Reality): In Lieu of an Introduction (translated by Shota Ogawa) - Mitsuhiro YOSHIMOTO, 吉本光宏
Fujita Tsuguhara Retrospective 2006: Resurrection of a Former Official War Painter - Asato IKEDA
Politics of Representation or Representation of Politics? Yasukuni the Film - Akiko TAKENAKA
Fiction: The Wind Sound (translated by Kyoko Selden and Alisa Freedman) - Medoruma SHUN
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