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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810013803321

Autore

Taylor-Jones Kate E.

Titolo

Divine work, Japanese colonial cinema and its legacy / / Kate Taylor-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

ISBN

1-5013-0615-4

1-5013-0614-6

1-5013-0613-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Topics and issues in national cinema ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

791.430952

Soggetti

Imperialism in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Japan - Colonies - History

Motion pictures - Japan - History and criticism

Nationalism in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Colonial cinema and the imperial machine -- Constructing the cinematic Japanese empire: Taiwan and Korea -- Nation's in harmony: imperial cinema -- Landscape and the space of the colonial moment -- Army recruitment films -- Imperial women -- Contemporary manifestations and the legacy of empire. Introduction to part two -- Legacy of empire -- Japan remembers, Japan forgets -- Remembering Nanjing -- Transnational legacy and conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

For many East Asian nations, cinema and Japanese Imperialism arrived within a few years of each other. Exploring topics such as landscape, gender, modernity and military recruitment, this study details how the respective national cinemas of Japan's territories struggled under, but also engaged with, the Japanese Imperial structures. Japan was ostensibly committed to an ethos of pan-Asianism and this study explores how this sense of the transnational was conveyed cinematically across the occupied lands. Taylor-Jones traces how cinema in the region post-1945 needs to be understood not only in terms of past colonial relationships, but also in relation to how the post-colonial has engaged with shifting political alliances, the



opportunities for technological advancement and knowledge, the promise of larger consumer markets, and specific historical conditions of each decade