Hibakusha Cinema

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film

edited by Mick Broderick

published by Kegan Paul International,
London 1996

Kegan Paul International, London, UK 1996. 256 pages, cloth, 22 b&w; plates US$76.50, ISBN 071030529X. Available from: (US/Canada) Columbia University Press, New York, USA. Tel: (212) 666 1000 Fax: (212) 316 3100 (Europe/elsewhere) John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex, England. Tel: (01234) 779 777 Fax: (01234) 820 250 Other enquiries, email: m.broderick@afc.gov.au

Contents

• Mick Broderick, "Editor's introduction"
• Donald Richie, "Mono No Aware: Hiroshima on Film"
• Susan Sontag, "The Imagination of Disaster"
• Chon Noriega, "Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! Is U.S."
• Ben Crawford, "Emperor Tomato-Ketchup: Cartoon Properties from Japan"
• Freda Freiberg, "Akira: and the Postnuclear Sublime"
• Kyoko Hirano, "Depiction of the Atomic Bombings in Japanese Cinema During the US Occupation Period"
• Abé Mark Nornes, "The Body at the Center: The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
• Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa's dreams and rhapsodies"
• James Goodwin, "Akira Kurosawa and the Atomic Age"
• John T. Dorsey & Naomi Matsuoka, "Narrative Strategies of Understatement in Black Rain as a Novel and a Film"
• Maya Morioka Todeschini, "Death and the Maiden: Female Hibakusha as Cultural Heroines and the Politics of A-bomb Memory"