Del i serien Topics and Issues in National Cinema

Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvKate Taylor-Jones

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-24
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTopics and Issues in National Cinema
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501306129

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Kate Taylor-Jones is Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at The University of Sheffield, UK. She has published on topics including colonial Japanese and Korean cinema, cinema and landscape in East Asia, and domestic violence and the sex trade. She is author of Rising Sun, Divided Land: Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers (2013); and editor-in-chief of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. She is co-editor with Fiona Handyside of International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (2015).

Introduction Part One: Colonial Cinema and the Imperial MachineChapter One Constructing the Cinematic Japanese Empire: Taiwan and KoreaChapter Two Nation’s in Harmony: Imperial cinema Chapter Three Landscape and the space of the colonial moment Chapter Four Army Recruitment Films Chapter Five Imperial Women Part Two: Contemporary Manifestations and the Legacy of EmpireIntroduction to Part TwoChapter Six Legacy of Empire Chapter Seven Japan Remembers, Japan Forgets Chapter Eight Remembering Nanjing Chapter Nine Transnational Legacy and ConclusionBibliographyFilmography

Concise, lucid, and deeply researched, Divine Work shows the historical roots of contemporary contours of globalization in East Asia. Kate Taylor-Jones makes a qualitative leap by working from the transnational perspective of the empire rather than a Japanese national one. Her prodigious excavations in far-flung and not always easily accessed archives produce a true revelation for her readers – we see Japanese colonial cinema in a whole new way. Investigating how colonized and colonizer worked together in complex relationships under conditions of subjugation and exploitation, she looks at films made by Koreans, Chinese and other subjects and citizens to show how they imagined gender, modernity, landscapes and more. The second half the book demonstrates that this repudiated project has contemporary legacies, ranging from Pan-Asian cinematic projects to the contentions over the Nanjing Massacre.