Sasaki Cinema of Discontent

Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9101-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan’s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sasaki, Tomoyuki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Narrating High-Speed Growth through Film

1. Drifting in Tokyo: Reconstruction and Uneven Development in Kawashima Yuzo’s Susaki Paradise Red Light (1956)

2. A Girl from Izu: Labor Migration and Modern Subjectivity in Masumura Yasuzo’s Blue-Sky Girl(1957)

3. Osaka, City of Spies: The Powerless Worker in Industrial Society in Inoue Akira’s Black Weapon (1964)

4. Yokohama Romance: The Cold War, Revolution, and Asian Solidarity in Ezaki Mio’s A Warm Misty Night (1967)

5. Waiting for Spring in Shiretoko: A Postscript to High-Speed Growth in Kumashiro Tatsumi’s The Light of Africa (1975)

Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tomoyuki Sasaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the College of William & Mary. He is the author of Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society: Contesting a Better Life.