Prologue: Hiroshima Nagasaki / Matthew Edwards -- Gojira and the bomb. The rhetorical significance of Gojira: equipment for living through trauma / Shannon Stevens -- Japan removed: Godzilla adaptations and erasure of the politics of nuclear experience / Jason C. Jones -- Atomic reaction: Godzilla as metaphor for generational attitudes toward the United States and the bomb / John Vohlidka -- Japanese atomic cinema, 1945-2014. Suppression and censorship: Japanese cinema during the occupation / Matthew Edwards -- Pica-don: Japanese and American reception and promotion of Hideo Sekigawa's Hiroshima / Mick Broderick and Junko Hatori -- The shadow of the bomb in Hiroshi Teshigahara's The face of another / Tony Pritchard -- Nuclear skin: Hiroshima and the critique of embodiment in Affairs within walls / Julia Alekseyeva -- The atomic bomb experience and the Japanese family in Keiji Nakazawa's anime Hadashi no gen (barefoot gen) / Kenji Kaneko -- Yuichi and Jizo in Black rain: Imamura's phenomenological attempt to render a Hiroshima wormhole experience among his audience / Keiko Takioto Miller -- Trauma and witness in Hideo Nakata's Ring- Tienfong ho: the fragile roots of memory / Robert McParland -- Inconceivable anxiety: representation, disease and discrimination in atomic-bomb films / Yuki Miyamoto -- Kazuo Kuroki and Hisashi Inoue's Chichi to Kuraseba: remember, protest and return to ordinary life / Yoshiko Fukushima -- Breaking the silence of the atomic bomb survivors in Japanese graphic novel Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms and the film adaptation / Senjo Nakai -- The sound of the bomb: Go Shibata's nn891102 / Johannes Schonherr -- Western perspectives. Hiroshima films: cultural contexts before, during and after the Cold War / Greg Nielsen and Margaret M. Ferrara -- Hiroshima: an interview with director Roger Spottiswoode / Matthew Edwards -- White light/Black rain: the "atomic films" of Steven Okazaki / Matthew Edwards -- A[nime] bomb: an interview with Hibakusha director Steve Nguyen / Matthew Edwards -- Hibakusha: our life to live: an interview with director David Rothauser / Matthew Edwards -- All that remains: an interview with Ian and Dominic Higgins / Matthew Edwards.
Summary:
"This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema. The contributors take on a number of complex issues, including the suffering of the survivors (hibakusha), the fear of future holocausts and the danger of nuclear warfare. Exclusive interviews with critically acclaimed directors are included"-- Provided by publisher.
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