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Coates, J E, 404956
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A sense of a memory: prosthetic war memories among the Japanese cinema audience
No full textEngaging with the cinema has shaped many individuals’ understandings of Japan’s war history, demonstrating the major role that popular culture can play in evoking, embedding, and rearranging memories. This chapter explores how repeated engagements with film texts and cinema spaces can build prosthetic war memory among elderly audience members in Japan today. In the ethnographic materials analysed in this chapter, a sense of having war memories emerges from affectively charged recollections of going to the cinema, engaging with film culture, and sharing film spaces with others. While the basis of these perceived memories in fact (or otherwise) is hard to prove or disprove, cinema is discussed as evoking a closeness to wartime and to the generations who experienced Japan’s wars before 1945. This chapter approaches postwar cinema culture as “enabler of ‘prosthetic memory’” (Keene in PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 7: 1–18, 2010, 2; Landsberg in Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004). Alison Landsberg coined the term “prosthetic memory” to describe “a new form of public cultural memory” located “at the interface between a person and a historical narrative about the past at an experiential site such as a movie theatre or a museum” (Landsberg in Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004, 2). In such encounters, Landsberg suggests that “the person does not simply apprehend a historical narrative but takes on a more personal, deeply felt memory of a past event through which he or she did not live” (Landsberg in Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004, 2). Exploring narratives about cinema-going in the early postwar period, this chapter posits engaging with war narratives on film as a means of bringing the cinema-goer closer to an understanding of Japan’s war history, in light of the “enabling modalities” offered by cinema culture (Keene in PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 7: 1–18, 2010, 10). As such, this chapter does not deal with the narrative contents of war films themselves, but instead approaches the medium of film through ethnography and participant observation of viewership practices among elderly Japanese audience members
Introduction: engaging with war memory and the legacies of East Asian conflicts, 1930-1945
No full textThis interdisciplinary volume brings together new scholarship from the fields of History, Museums and Heritage Studies, Cultural Studies, and Anthropology to offer a unique exploration of transnational war memory formation. With a focus on how grassroots communities and everyday viewers and audiences engage with war memory, the volume offers a cross-cultural account of how war memory is shaped by practical and contextual factors, which in turn inform the formation of future memories
Politicizing the audience? Film fans’ experiences of cinema in the 1960s
Get PDFThe potential politicizing effects of a film or media text are often inferred from the political personae or directly expressed intentions of those involved in its making, from the presence of a political auteur-director to the mass-media friendly apolitical self-identifications of certain stars. Analyzing ethnographic material that deals with film viewers’ memories of cinema cultures, this chapter explores the possibilities and limitations of politicizing an audience through cinema. The chapter explores film fans’ memories of this era, in order to understand how cinema culture and film theatres are remembered in relation to an individual’s sense of their own politicization or depoliticization. It explores the politicized state of the cinema audience at the end of the 1950s through a case study focused on one politically inclined film-viewing group in the northwest region of Kyoto, which was the first iteration of the group now known as the Kinugasa eiga kai
Sketch plan of the Chambers' Creek leases [cartographic material] /
No full textMap 76 from Ferguson Collection.; Survey of mining leases near Chambers' Creek, N.S.W.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f76; Library copy hand coloured, has ms. annotations.Ferguson Collection Map 76
Introduction : Gender and culture in Japan today
Get PDFThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyses the contours of the field. The collection features both new work and updated accounts of classic scholarship, providing a go-to reference work for contemporary scholarship on gender in Japanese culture. The book focuses on various disciplinary and subdisciplinary approaches to gender in Japanese culture, including approaches from premodern and modern history, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, queer theory, and linguistics. It aims to assess the work-life balance that determines much of family life in contemporary Japan, and demonstrates the uneasy pull between the demands of the public and private spheres experienced by many working people. The book presents a series of close readings of text and genre from the perspective of gender and its related issues. It also demonstrates how textual analysis sensitive to gender and its operations can reveal nuance and complexity in a variety of areas of study
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Gender in digital technologies and cultures
No full textDigital technology affords new modes of engaging with gender, often in ways that challenge extant inequalities through simulation and transformation. Yet digital iterations of gender do not make a radical break with pre-existing lived experiences and practices and can even support the development of conservative or exclusionary gender ideologies rather than proliferation of difference. Furthermore, the major research activity around Japanese digital cultures to date has tended to cleave to disciplinary boundaries without a great degree of cross-reference, and so key approaches and definitions central to the study of digital technologies and cultures vary across different fields. This problem is exacerbated by the ubiquity of digital technologies in various aspects of Japanese life. This chapter brings together a diverse array of research on digital cultures in Japan in order to survey the fast-developing field and at the same time argue for drawing a wider definitional boundary around that field. The chapter concludes with a case study of later-life smartphone use and its gendered implications
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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