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This book uncovers and explains the ways by which politics is naturalized and denaturalized, and familiarized and de-familiarized through popular media.
List of contents
Introduction
JENNIFER COATES AND EYAL BEN- ARI
SECTION A
Historical contexts
1 A question of form: dissent and the nouvelle vagueISOLDE STANDISH
2 Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics: the Abe Sada incident in films
KATSUYUKI HIDAKA
3 The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless: agency, constraint, and what is "worthy" of film censorship in trans-war Japan
IRIS HAUKAMP
4 Tarzan and Japan: racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya DEANNA T. NARDY
SECTION B
Critique, contestation, and resistance
5 Down in the dumps: Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime
ALISA FREEDMAN
6 Cinema at the edge of the world: visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi
LINDSAY NELSON
7 How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy (2011–2013)
RAN MA
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
ATSUKO FUKUURA AND EYAL BEN-ARI
9 Politicizing the audience? Film fans’ experiences of cinema in the 1960s
JENNIFER COATES
10 Fading away from the screen: cinematic responses to queer ageing in contemporary Japanese cinema
YUTAKA KUBO
About the author
Jennifer Coates is a senior lecturer in Japanese studies in the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Eyal Ben-Ari is director of the Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace, Israel.
Summary
This book uncovers and explains the ways by which politics is naturalized and denaturalized, and familiarized and de-familiarized through popular media.
