Yoichiro Miyamoto is a Specially Appointed Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the Open University Japan and Professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba.Hans-Peter Rodenberg is a Professor emeritus of Media and Communication and American Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg.

• IntroductionYoichiro Miyamoto (Open University of Japan)Kinds of Noir: Transnational Realism in Postwar America, Japan and EuropeHans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)The Dark City of Modernity: From “The Killers” to the City noirEisuke Kawada (Kanazawa University)The Stylistic Aesthetic of Disfiguration: The Style of Modernity in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”Astrid Böger (University of Hamburg)Strange Revelations: Re-encountering Diane Arbus’s Photographic WorkTamara Radak (University of Vienna)“Maybe the war will be over”: Alternative Futures and Equivocal Closure in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms)Kodai Abe (University of Tsukuba)Reading Woolfe Against Trauma: Shell Shock and Gender in Mrs. DallowayBunei Kohara (Komatsu University)Interopticality and the Atomic Phantom: Jaws, Godzilla, and America’s Legacy of WarHans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)The Terrible Modernity of War: A Bricolage of Artistic Responses in Japan and America

Yoichiro Miyamoto is a Specially Appointed Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the Open University Japan and Professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba.Hans-Peter Rodenberg is a Professor emeritus of Media and Communication and American Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg.

• IntroductionYoichiro Miyamoto (Open University of Japan)Kinds of Noir: Transnational Realism in Postwar America, Japan and EuropeHans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)The Dark City of Modernity: From “The Killers” to the City noirEisuke Kawada (Kanazawa University)The Stylistic Aesthetic of Disfiguration: The Style of Modernity in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”Astrid Böger (University of Hamburg)Strange Revelations: Re-encountering Diane Arbus’s Photographic WorkTamara Radak (University of Vienna)“Maybe the war will be over”: Alternative Futures and Equivocal Closure in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms)Kodai Abe (University of Tsukuba)Reading Woolfe Against Trauma: Shell Shock and Gender in Mrs. DallowayBunei Kohara (Komatsu University)Interopticality and the Atomic Phantom: Jaws, Godzilla, and America’s Legacy of WarHans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)The Terrible Modernity of War: A Bricolage of Artistic Responses in Japan and America

Yoichiro Miyamoto is a Specially Appointed Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the Open University Japan and Professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba.Hans-Peter Rodenberg is a Professor emeritus of Media and Communication and American Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg.

• IntroductionYoichiro Miyamoto (Open University of Japan)Kinds of Noir: Transnational Realism in Postwar America, Japan and EuropeHans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)The Dark City of Modernity: From “The Killers” to the City noirEisuke Kawada (Kanazawa University)The Stylistic Aesthetic of Disfiguration: The Style of Modernity in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”Astrid Böger (University of Hamburg)Strange Revelations: Re-encountering Diane Arbus’s Photographic WorkTamara Radak (University of Vienna)“Maybe the war will be over”: Alternative Futures and Equivocal Closure in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms)Kodai Abe (University of Tsukuba)Reading Woolfe Against Trauma: Shell Shock and Gender in Mrs. DallowayBunei Kohara (Komatsu University)Interopticality and the Atomic Phantom: Jaws, Godzilla, and America’s Legacy of WarHans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)The Terrible Modernity of War: A Bricolage of Artistic Responses in Japan and America