Chinese and Japanese films on the Second World War / edited by King-fai Tam, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tam, King-fai, editor.

Wilson, Sandra, 1957- editor.

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Series:

Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 38.

Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan.

China.

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--China--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

History.

Motion pictures--Japan--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

"This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the war is remembered in both countries, including the demonisation of Japanese soldiers in postwar socialist-era Chinese movies, and the pervasive sense of victimhood in Japanese memories of the war. However, it also shows how some Chinese directors were experimenting with alternatives interpretations of the war from as early as the 1950s, and how, despite the "resurgence of nationalism" in japan since the 1980s, the production of Japanese movies critical of the war has continued"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

1. The Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese film / King-Fai Tam

2. A genealogy of anti-Japanese protagonists in Chinese war films, 1949-2011 / Timothy Y. Tsu

3. Film, ethnic minorities, and the Anti-Japanese War: an analysis of The Muslim Detachment and Jin Yuji / Han Yanli

4. The Sino-Japanese War in Ip Man: from miscommunication to poetic combat / Paola Voci

5. War, horror and trauma: Japanese atrocities on Chinese screens / Kristof Van Den Troost

6. Documentaries as historical text: the emergence of the East River Column on Hong Kong television screens / King-Fai Tam

7. The theme of salvation in Chinese and Japanese war movies / Siu Leung Li

8. Establishing the genre of the revisionist war film: the Shin-Toho body of post-Occupation war films in Japan / Dick Stegewerns

9. Wild, wild war: Okamoto Kihachi and the politics of the Desperado films / Hiroshi Kitamura

10. Japan's longest days: Toho and the politics of war memory, 1967

1972 / Harald Salomon

11. The Himeyuri film cycle: cultural change and remakes of an Okinawan tragedy / Christopher Ames

12. What is there to laugh about? University of Laughs as an anti-war film comedy / Beng Choo Lim

13. A past to be ashamed of or proud of?: echoes of the Fifteen-Year War in Japanese film / Marco Del Bene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

ISBN:

113857709X

9781138791039

1138791032

9781138577091

OCLC:

994567354