Through a Nuclear Lens : France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima / Hannah Holtzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holtzman, Hannah, 1983- author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear warfare in motion pictures.

Japonism.

Japan--In motion pictures.

Japan.

France--Relations--Japan.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Permissions

Names and Translations

Introduction

The Nuclear Era, from Hiroshima to Fukushima

The Nuclear Lens, the Chronotope of the Nuclear, and Multisensory Perception

Outline of Chapters

1 From Japonisme to the Nuclear Era

From Marco Polo to Japonisme

Technological Developments through the Twentieth Century

Franco-Japanese Exchange into the Twenty-First Century

2 Learning to See with Japan in Hiroshima mon amour

The Forgotten First Franco-Japanese Coproduction

Hiroshima through a Nuclear Lens

The Chronotope of the Nuclear

3 Tu n'as rien vu: Japanese Responses to Hiroshima mon amour

Ōshima's Vision of France in Max mon amour

Suwa's Vision of Hiroshima in H Story

Another Refraction of Hiroshima mon amour

4 Things That Quicken the Heart: Sensing the Nuclear in Chris Marker's Japan

Japan in a Nuclear Paris

Sensing the Nuclear in Marker's Tokyo

Level Five and the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud

5 Interaction and Solidarity through a Digital Nuclear Lens

Voices from the Zone

Visions from Afar

6 Reframing Hiroshima mon amour after Fukushima

The Future Looks the Same as the Past

The Heart of the Problem

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438497853

1438497857