Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia 9780824858179
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 193
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Divided Lenses
Part I. Screen Histories of War in East Asia
1. War, History, and Remembrance in Chinese Cinema
2. Of Female Spies and National Heroes: A Brief History of Anti-Japanese Films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s
3. The “Division Blockbuster” in South Korea: The Evolution of Cinematic Representations of War and Division
4. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun: Imagining the Pacific War in the Japanese Cinema
5. Japanese Manga and Anime on the Asia-Pacific War Experience
6. Continuity and Change in Hollywood’s Representations of American-Asian Relations in War and Peace
Part II. Reading War Trauma
7. Oscillating Histories: Representations of Comfort Women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women
8. Shooting the Enemy: Photographic Attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose
9. War and Nationalism in Recent Japanese Cinema: Yamato, Kamikaze, Trauma, and Forgetting the Postwar
10. The Promise and Limits of “Pop Culture Diplomacy” in East Asia: Contexts-Texts- Reception
11. History and Its Alternatives: War Games as Social Form
Films, Television, and Videogames
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
