Atomic Bomb Cinema

Author : Jerome F. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135350123

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Atomic Bomb Cinema by Jerome F. Shapiro Pdf

Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema. According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world. www.atomicbombcinema.com

Author : Jerome F. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135350192

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Atomic Bomb Cinema by Jerome F. Shapiro Pdf

Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema. According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world. www.atomicbombcinema.com

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476620206

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The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema by Matthew Edwards Pdf

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche. From the Occupation Period to the present, Japanese cinema had offered a means of coming to terms with one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. From the monster movies Gojira (1954) and Mothra (1961) to experimental works like Go Shibata's NN-891102 (1999), atomic bomb imagery features in all genres of Japanese film. This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema. The contributors take on a number of complex issues, including the suffering of the survivors (hibakusha), the fear of future holocausts and the danger of nuclear warfare. Exclusive interviews with Go Shibata and critically acclaimed directors Roger Spottiswoode (Hiroshima) and Steven Okazaki (White Light/Black Rain) are included.

Author : Jerome F. Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090062109

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Atomic Bomb Cinema by Jerome F. Shapiro Pdf

Author : Broderick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136883187

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Hibakusha Cinema by Broderick Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mike Bogue
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668413

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Apocalypse Then by Mike Bogue Pdf

The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film. American science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s generally proclaim that it is possible to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Japanese films of the same period assert that once freed the nuclear genie can never again be imprisoned. This book examines genre films from the two countries released between 1951 and 1967--including Godzilla (1954), The Mysterians (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), On the Beach (1959), The Last War (1961) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)--to show the view from both sides of the Pacific.

Author : David Deamer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441145895

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Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb by David Deamer Pdf

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.

Author : John Joseph Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Apocalyptic literature
ISBN : OCLC:1148015508

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The Apocalyptic Imagination by John Joseph Collins Pdf

Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002543960

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Nuclear War Films by Jack G. Shaheen Pdf

This first book-length critical examination of nuclear war motion picturesfeature films, documentaries, and educational short filmsin addition to recognizing a new film genre reflects an important era of modern film history.Taken as a whole, the 25 contributions by 21 film specialists brought together here provide a comprehensive view of 32 feature films, documentaries, and educational short films comprising a representative selection of the new genreall produced between 1946 and 1975 by American, French, British, and Japanese film makers. In addition to discussions of such well-known films as "On the Beach," " Hiroshima," " Mon Amour," " "and "Dr. Strangelove," " "the collection analyzes and comments on a number of less well known but important films such as "A Thousand Cranes," " Countdown to Zero," and "To Die, To Live," " "documentaries and educational short films that hitherto have been inadequately presented in cinema literature.Marshall Flaum, one of the outstanding figures in the field of television documentaries, has provided an unusually interesting Foreword, and Jack Shaheen, the editor of the volume, has added a perceptive Preface and has appended a list of distributors and credits. A major contribution to the serious study of the nuclear war film genre, the book thus provides an analytic text with apparatus and notes, and will be of interest to general readers as well as students of the film and film makers."

Author : Mick Broderick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0899505430

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Nuclear Movies by Mick Broderick Pdf

Author : Greg Mitchell
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781620975749

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The Beginning or the End by Greg Mitchell Pdf

The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon. Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand, who saw in physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer the model for a character she was sketching for Atlas Shrugged. Greg Mitchell’s The Beginning or the End chronicles the first efforts of American media and culture to process the Atomic Age. A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military—for reasons of propaganda, politics, and petty human vanity (this was Hollywood). Mitchell has found his way into the lofty rooms, from Washington to California, where it happened, unearthing hundreds of letters and dozens of scripts that show how wise intentions were compromised in favor of defending the use of the bomb and the imperatives of postwar politics. As in his acclaimed Cold War true-life thriller The Tunnels, he exposes how our implacable American myth-making mechanisms distort our history.

Author : Barry Atkinson
Publisher : Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Atomic Age Cinema: The Offbeat, the Classic and the Obscure by Barry Atkinson Pdf

Author : Toni A. Perrine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317732198

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Film and the Nuclear Age by Toni A. Perrine Pdf

Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature nuclear issues most often simplify and trivialize the subject. They also convey a sense of the ambivalence and anxiety that pervades cultural responses to our nuclear capability. The production of popular narrative films with nuclear topics largely conforms to periods of heightened nuclear awareness or fear, such as the fear of fallout from nuclear testing manifested in the atomic creatures in science fiction movies of the late 1950s. By their very numbers, and through a set of recurring stylistic and narrative conventions, nuclear films reflect a deep-seated cultural anxiety. This study includes detailed textual analysis of films that depict nuclear issues including the development and use of the first atomic bombs, nuclear testing and the fear of fallout, nuclear power, the Cold War arms race, loose nukes, and future nuclear war and its aftermath.(Includes bibliographic references, index, filmography, choronology; Illustrated)

Author : Markus Nornes
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816640459

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Japanese Documentary Film by Markus Nornes Pdf

Among Asian countries--where until recently documentary filmmaking was largely the domain of central governments--Japan was exceptional for the vigor of its nonfiction film industry. And yet, for all its aesthetic, historical, and political interest, the Japanese documentary remains little known and largely unstudied outside of Japan. This is the first English-language study of the subject, an enlightening close look at the first fifty years of documentary film theory and practice in Japan. Beginning with films made by foreigners in the nineteenth century and concluding with the first two films made after Japan's surrender in 1945, Abe Mark Nornes moves from a "prehistory of the documentary, " through innovations of the proletarian film movement, to the hardening of style and conventions that started with the Manchurian Incident films and continued through the Pacific War. Nornes draws on a wide variety of archival sources--including Japanese studio records, secret police reports, government memos, letters, military tribunal testimonies, and more--to chart shifts in documentary style against developments in the history of modern Japan.

Author : Haidee Wasson,Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520291508

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Cinema's Military Industrial Complex by Haidee Wasson,Lee Grieveson Pdf

The vast, and vastly influential, American military machine has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The US military realized very quickly that film could be used in myriad ways: training, testing, surveying and mapping, surveillance, medical and psychological management of soldiers, and of course, propaganda. Bringing together a collection of new essays, based on archival research, Wasson and Grieveson seek to cover the complex history of how the military deployed cinema for varied purposes across the the long twentieth century, from the incipient wars of US imperialism in the late nineteenth century to the ongoing War on Terror. This engagement includes cinema created and used by and for the military itself (such as training films), the codevelopment of technologies (chemical, mechanical, and digital), and the use of film (and related mass media) as a key aspect of American "soft power," at home and around the world. A rich and timely set of essays, this volume will become a go-to for scholars interested in all aspects of how the military creates and uses moving-image media.