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

Livre 70 sur 71: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Sasaki, Tomoyuki

 
9781438491004: Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 143849100X ISBN 13 : 9781438491004
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Japan experienced an unprecedented level of economic growth, transforming itself from a war-devastated country to a global economic power. Our image of postwar Japan has been shaped by this event, and we tend to see its history as a story of great national success. Cinema of Discontent challenges this view and details the tensions generated by massive and intense capitalist development through analyses of popular cinema produced during the era of high-speed growth. The films discussed in this book, directed by Kawashima Yūzō, Masumura Yasuzō, Inoue Akira, Ezaki Mio, and Kumashiro Tatsumi, attracted broad audiences yet remain understudied. Cinema of Discontent contextualizes these films in relation to the politics, economy, intellectual discourse, and cultural texts of the time. By doing so, it demonstrates how these films address problems immanent to Japan's postwar capitalism, including uneven development, increasing corporate control over individuals, precarious and contingent work, and militarized peace and prosperity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tomoyuki Sasaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the College of William & Mary. He is the author of Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society: Contesting a Better Life.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
143849100X
ISBN 13 
9781438491004
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
286
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