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Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Christophe Thouny, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Christophe Thouny, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection examines the event of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics to portray the triple catastrophe of March 2011 as both a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. The contributors examine how this new situation has been expressed in particular cultural forms (literature, film), political discourses and urban everyday life in Tokyo and Fukushima, arguing for an imperative need to redefine the national frame of analysis in terms of the concept of the planetary. Building on recent debates in ecocriticism, Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Life After Fukushima deconstructs the spatial logic of containment that reduces the event of Fukushima to a place-bound object to instead reinscribe this event within an open narrative of the planetary. This we believe will allow us to redefine our topologies of attachment to local places beside national discourses of unity, resilience and global strategies of risk management, and open the way to a radical rethink of Japan's cultural politics of Japan after March 2011.

Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017): Christophe... Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Christophe Thouny, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
R3,139 Discovery Miles 31 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection examines the event of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics to portray the triple catastrophe of March 2011 as both a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. The contributors examine how this new situation has been expressed in particular cultural forms (literature, film), political discourses and urban everyday life in Tokyo and Fukushima, arguing for an imperative need to redefine the national frame of analysis in terms of the concept of the planetary. Building on recent debates in ecocriticism, Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Life After Fukushima deconstructs the spatial logic of containment that reduces the event of Fukushima to a place-bound object to instead reinscribe this event within an open narrative of the planetary. This we believe will allow us to redefine our topologies of attachment to local places beside national discourses of unity, resilience and global strategies of risk management, and open the way to a radical rethink of Japan's cultural politics of Japan after March 2011.

Television, Japan, and Globalization (Paperback): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Eva Tsai, Jung-Bong Choi Television, Japan, and Globalization (Paperback)
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Eva Tsai, Jung-Bong Choi
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Kurosawa - Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Paperback): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Kurosawa - Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Paperback)
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa's entire body of work, from 1943's "Sanshiro Sugata" to 1993's "Madadayo." In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions.
Arguing that Kurosawa's films arouse anxiety in Japanese and Western critics because the films problematize Japan's self-image and the West's image of Japan, Yoshimoto challenges widely circulating cliches about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to sociocultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While fully acknowledging the achievement of Kurosawa as a filmmaker, Yoshimoto uses the director's work to reflect on and rethink a variety of larger issues, from Japanese film history, modern Japanese history, and cultural production to national identity and the global circulation of cultural capital. He examines how Japanese cinema has been "invented" in the discipline of film studies for specific ideological purposes and analyzes Kurosawa's role in that process of invention. Demonstrating the richness of both this director's work and Japanese cinema in general, Yoshimoto's nuanced study illuminates an array of thematic and stylistic aspects of the films in addition to their social and historical contexts.
Beyond aficionados of Kurosawa and Japanese film, this book will interest those engaged with cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural globalization, film studies, Asian studies, and the formation of academic disciplines.


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