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List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1. Introduction: 'Visual Histories of Occupation(s)', Jeremy E. Taylor
Part I: 'Ways of seeing' under Occupation
1. 'The "Visual Occupation Regime" in Postwar East Germany, 1945-61' ,Alexey Tikhomirov
2. ' "Fagin in Berlin Provokes a Riot": David Lean’s Oliver Twist and Perceptions of Jews in Allied-Occupied Germany' , Emily Oliver
3. 'Cultural Memories of Occupation in the Japanese Cinema Theatre, 1945-52', Jennifer Coates
Part II: Visual and Artistic Responses to Occupation
4. 'Occupation, Resistance and Collaboration: Triangulating Japan, the Philippines and Singapore through Fernando Amorsolo' s Defend Thy Honor', Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut
5. 'Art for Security: The Weaponizing of Israeli Art in Times of Emergency', Maayan Amir
6. 'Humour in States of Occupation: Contemporary Art and Cultural Resilience in Palestine, Greece and Australia', Chrisoula Lionis
Part III: Picturing Occupation
7. 'Photojournalism as a Means of Deception in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-45', Miriam Y. Arani
8. 'Re-visualizing Okinawa: Gender, Race and Cold War US Occupation in The Okinawa Graphic', Mire Koikari
Part IV: Visualizing and Remembering Landscapes of Occupation
9. 'An Uncanny Architecture of Cultural Heritage: Representations of the Japanese Occupation in Harbin, China', Jean Hillier & Shulan Fu
10. 'National Narratives of "Occupation" in Historical Museums of the post-Soviet Landscape' ,Katarzyna Jarosz
11. 'Occupying (Imagined) Landscapes', Noga Stiassny
Epilogue. ' "Retrocede Hong Kong!" Towards a Comparative Study of the Visuality of Occupation(s)', Jeremy E. Taylor
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the Author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas(2011) and has published articles in over 25 journals. Jeremy is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project ‘Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia’.
Summary
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the European Research Council.
Asking what does foreign occupation look like and how does occupation shape visual expression and cultures, this edited collection explores how the occupied and occupiers have responded to their circumstances through visual culture. Contributors study specific cases of foreign occupation from around the world and across the 20th century, discussing the similarities, links and points of contact which bring disparate examples of occupation into dialogue with one another. The intention is to illustrate how an emphasis on ‘the visual’ can help inform our understanding of occupation more broadly.
Comprised of 12 core chapters and structured around 4 methodological and conceptual themes, this book adopts a consciously transcultural approach through which contributors examine the influence of specific cases, memories and legacies of occupation. Spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere, the chapters also engage in a wider dialogue to reveal commonalities and points of comparison across political and temporal boundaries.
Foreword
An interdisciplinary exploration into how foreign occupation has shaped visual cultures and visual expression across the world, and how those living under occupation have responded in visual ways.
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This skilfully-edited book highlights the centrality of visual practices in the administration, experience, narration and remembrance of occupations worldwide. In doing so, it shows how analyses of visual cultures of occupation can offer a much-needed framework for the comparative study of the history of occupations despite their inevitably-distinctive historical and ideological characteristics.
