FILM AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN POSTWAR JAPAN by Michael H. Gibbs ( 9781453902561 )

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FILM AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN POSTWAR JAPAN

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1453902562

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9781453902561

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PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

4 July, 2012

Edition:

400th ed.

Series:

Framing Film the History and Art of Cinema 15

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Intends to examine the role of other states in fomenting war during the 1940s-1970s and in keeping the subsequent peace. The author provokes the reader to look beyond the standard national parameters of Japanese culture.

Synopsis:

This study of Japanese political culture from c. 1940 to 2009 challenges standard periodizations of postwar Japan, arguing that the postwar period began, much later than previously argued, when a culture of pacifism developed. We can see evidence of this in feature films from the era and in the activities of groups involved in film promotion and criticism. Film and Political Culture in Postwar Japan asks us to take Japanese pacifism seriously and not assume that it is merely a passing phenomenon. This study of the political left questions previous assumptions about such marginalization after the Red Purges of 1950 and the sectarian infighting of the 1960s. Michael H. Gibbs provokes the reader to look beyond the standard national parameters of Japanese culture, to examine the role of other states in fomenting war during the 1940s-1970s and in keeping the subsequent peace. In addition, he challenges the neglect of mainstream Japanese film criticism in English-language scholarship, focusing on many filmmakers seen as important in Japanese film culture but relatively little discussed in the west.Gibbs sets the canon of Great Japanese Directors to one side and focuses on the work of Kinoshita, Yamamoto, Masumura, Kuroki, Yamada, Higashi, Negishi, Sakamoto, and Nishikawa. Scholars and students of Japanese and East Asian history, film, war and peace studies, and comparative and world history should find this volume of great interest.

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