Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb

The Spectre of Impossibility

AvDavid Deamer

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David Deamer establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, exploring how Japanese films responded to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the early days of occupation political censorship to the social and cultural freedoms of the 1960s and beyond, the book examines how images of the nuclear event appear in post-war Japanese cinema. Each chapter begins by focusing upon one or more of three key Deleuzian themes – image, history and thought – before going on to look at a selection of films from 1945 to the present day. These include movies by well-known directors Kurosawa Akira, Shindo Kaneto, Oshima Nagisa and Imamura Shohei; popular and cult classics – Godzilla (1954), Akira (1988) and Tetsuo (1989); contemporary genre flicks – Ring (1998), Dead or Alive (1999) and Casshern (2004); the avant-garde and rarely seen documentaries. The author provides a series of tables to clarify the conceptual components deployed within the text, establishing a unique addition to Deleuze and cinema studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-31
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441145895
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Serie:Thinking Cinema

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Film inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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David Deamer is Associate Lecturer in film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published in Martin-Jones and Brown's Deleuze and Film; Bell and Colebrook's Deleuze and History; Deleuze Studies; and the online A/V Journal, of which he was co-founder. He blogs on Deleuze and cinema at www.daviddeamer.com.

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This ambitious book brings together three different constellations: the national cinema of Japan; the atom bombs thrown on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and Deleuze. Surprising though this may sound, the book patiently and expertly weaves these three strands together to the point of making us feel that the Deleuzian cineosis was conceived to address precisely this kind of historico-cinematic encounter. Moving away from reductive ideas of genre, Deamer tackles the complexity of a wide and extremely varied body of films united by the catastrophe of the atom bomb, allowing for a re-evaluation of forgotten gems as well as celebrated masterpieces. Unveiling not one but many Japans, this book testifies to the enduring power and infinite uses of Deleuze's vision of cinema.

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List of tablesList of imagesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: event, cinema, cineosis1. Special images, contingent centresMovement-images: Bergson, sensory-motor processThe Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Ito Sueo, 1946)Children of the Atom Bomb (Shindo Kaneto, 1952)Godzilla (Honda Ishiro, 1954) 2. Horizons of historyAction-images: Nietzsche, history Terror of Mechagodzilla (Honda Ishiro, 1975)Lucky Dragon No. 5 (Shindo Kaneto, 1959) Barefoot Gen (Masaki Mori, 1983)Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)3. Traces: symptoms and figuresImpulse-images; reflection-images: Peirce, semiosisThe Naked Island (Shindo Kaneto, 1960)Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike, 1999)Ring (Nakata Hideo, 1998)Kwaidan (Kobayashi Masaki, 1964)The Face of Another (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1966)Navel and A-bomb (Eikoh Hosoe, 1960)Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989) Face of Jizo (Kuroki Kazuo, 2004)4. Consummation (and crisis)Mental-images: Bergson, memoryI Live in Fear (Kurosawa Akira, 1955)Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950)Dreams (Kurosawa Akira, 1990)Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa Akira, 1991)5. Impure anarchic multiplicitiesTime-images: Deleuze, syntheses of timeCasshern (Kiriya Kazuaki, 2004)The Pacific War (Nagisa Oshima, 1968)A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (Imamura Shohei, 1970)Black Rain (Imamura Shohei, 1989)Hiroshima (Sekigawa Hideo, 1953)Conclusion: spectres of impossibilityNotesIndexSelect bibliographySelect filmography