Cinema of Discontent : Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth.

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.

書誌詳細
第一著者: Sasaki, Tomoyuki
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2022.
版:1st ed.
シリーズ:SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Ser.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252263
目次:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Figures
  • Maps
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Narrating High-Speed Growth through Film
  • Historical Narratives of Postwar Japan
  • Methodology: Historicization of Cinematic Texts
  • Maruyama Masao and the History of Ideas
  • "Place" as an Analytical Category
  • Chapter Organization
  • Note on Japanese Names and Titles
  • 1 Drifting in Tokyo: Reconstruction and Uneven Development in Kawashima Yūzō's Susaki Paradise Red Light (1956)
  • Kawashima Yūzō and Fūzoku Films
  • July 1956: The Economic White Paper
  • Legacies of the War, Delayed Reconstruction
  • Tensions of Uneven Development
  • Liminal Space: Muen, or "No Ties"
  • 2 A Girl from Izu: Labor Migration and Modern Subjectivity in Masumura Yasuzō's Blue-Sky Girl (1957)
  • Genji Keita and the "Salaryman" Genre
  • The Migration of Young Workers: "Going up to the Capital"
  • A Special Maid from Izu
  • The Intertextuality of Wakao Ayako
  • Individualism as a Critique of Japanese Society
  • Ideology and Subjectivity
  • The Reflexive Body
  • 3 Osaka, City of Spies: The Powerless Worker in Industrial Society in Inoue Akira's Black Weapon (1964)
  • Kajiyama Toshiyuki, "Business Novels," and the "Black" Series
  • War of Home Appliances
  • Advent of an Industrial Society
  • Spies as Cosmopolitan Urbanites
  • Osaka as a Modern Industrial City
  • The Placelessness of Senri New Town
  • Uehonmachi Station: The Return of History
  • 4 Yokohama Romance: The Cold War, Revolution, and Asian Solidarity in Ezaki Mio's A Warm Misty Night (1967)
  • Nikkatsu "Mood Action" Films
  • Cosmopolitan Yokohama
  • Yokohama as a Contact Zone
  • The Dream of Revolution
  • Stirring Asian Solidarity
  • Homosociality and the Infertile Body
  • 5 Waiting for Spring in Shiretoko: A Postscript to High-Speed Growth in Kumashiro Tatsumi's The Light of Africa (1975).
  • Shōken Meets Kumashiro Tatsumi
  • Jobless Men in Hokkaido
  • Rausu: Rural Japan Unromanticized
  • Longing for Africa
  • "Stranger Intimacy" and the End of an Era
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Online Databases
  • Filmography
  • Index.