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Asia Shorts Ser.: Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema by Rachel DiNitto (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAssociation for Asian Studies, Incorporated

ISBN-101952636507

ISBN-139781952636509

eBay Product ID (ePID)5065707884

Product Key Features

Number of Pages280 Pages

Publication NameEco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectMedia Studies, General, Ecology, Film / History & Criticism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Art, Performing Arts, Social Science

AuthorRachel Dinitto

SeriesAsia Shorts Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.4 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width6.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2024-036347

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA remarkable volume covering nearly seventy years of Japanese cinematic production. A most welcome and timely addition to Japanese studies, environmental humanities, and film studies, Eco-Disasters brings together exceptional scholarship on films the clear focus of which is environmental trauma and on those where environmental themes are more nuanced but no less important. A must read for students and scholars alike!, Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema is an exemplary collection of essays that takes us into a fascinating spectrum of film genres, prompting us to rethink, expand, and redefine the scope of ecocinema in both Japanese and broader global contexts. It also serves as a very timely contribution to the growing field of environmental humanities, engaging closely with some of its most pivotal concepts--from the slow violence of nuclear disasters, the giant monster as a hyperobject, to the vital materiality of toxic waste., Ranging from Godzilla to Evangelion , Miyazaki Hayao to Kore-eda Hirokazu, and blockbuster disaster movies to somber documentaries and dreamy melodramas, Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema is a diverse, thought-provoking, and endlessly fascinating exploration of how environmental catastrophes have haunted, incited, and inspired Japan's filmmakers and animators. Theoretically sophisticated but thoroughly accessible, this compact volume is a rich resource for scholars, a perfect text for use in film, environmental, and Japanese studies classrooms, and an eye-opening read for all fans of Japanese cinema and popular culture.

Dewey Decimal791.436556

Table Of ContentContents Introduction -- Rachel DiNitto Toxicscapes 1. Temporality and Landscapes of Reclamation: Johnny Depp Goes to Minamata -- Christine L. Marran 2. Hedorah vs. Hyperobject; or Why Smog Monsters Are Real and We Must Object to Object-Oriented Ontologies -- Jonathan Abel 3. The Toxic Vitality of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Charisma -- Rachel DiNitto 4. Plastic Garbage in Kore-eda Hirokazu's Air Doll -- Davinder L. Bhowmik Contaminated Futures and Childhoods 5. Environmental Anxiety and the Toxic Earth of Space Battleship Yamato -- Kaoru Tamura 6. Miyazaki Hayao's Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema: Rereading Nausicaä -- Roman Rosenbaum 7. You Can (Not) Restore: Ecocritique and Intergenerational Ecological Conflict in Evangelion -- Christopher Smith 8. Jellyfish Eyes (2013) and the Struggle for Reenchantment -- Laura Lee Nuclear Anxiety and Violence 9. The Reimagination of Godzilla : The Concealment of Nuclear Violence -- Shan Ren 10. The Walking Nuclear Disaster: Nuclear Terrorism and the Meaning of the Atom in The Man Who Stole the Sun -- Eugenio De Angelis 11. Representing the Unrepresentable: Hibakusha Cinema, Historiography, and Memory in Rhapsody in August -- Adam Bingham 12. Hibakusha Film as Genre, and the Slow Violence Depicted in Morisaki Azuma's Nuclear Gypsies -- Jeffrey DuBois 13. Nuclear Visuality and Popular Resistance in Kamanaka Hitomi's Eco-Disaster Documentaries -- Andrea Gevurtz Arai Ruined and Apocalyptic Landscapes 14. Diverging Imaginations of Planetary Change: The Media Franchise of Japan Sinks -- Hideaki Fujiki 15. Technology, Urban Sprawl, and the Apocalyptic Imagination in Hiroyuki Seshita's BLAME! (2017) -- Amrita S. Iyer 16. Stranded among Eternal Ruins: Three Films about "Fukushima" -- Aidana Bolatbekkyzy 17. Disaster and the Landscape of the Heart in Asako I & II (2018) -- Dong Hoon Kim List of Films Discussed in This Volume About the Editor and Contributors

SynopsisEco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first book dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese cinema., Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first volume dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese cinema. The films examined cover 1954-2020 and include documentaries, monster films, cult films, studio blockbusters, and activist cinema. The chapters highlight important moments in disaster ecocinema, introduce films not well known outside of Japan, and analyze films not previously read through an environmental lens. Chapters are organized under intersecting themes that address the slow and fast violence of local and planetary environmental destruction: toxicscapes, contaminated futures and childhoods, nuclear anxiety and violence, and ruined and apocalyptic landscapes. This volume showcases a range of directors, eras, audiences, and genres and illustrates the profound diversity of Japanese films that feature systemic assaults on the environment.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.D55E2 2024