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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIs “capturing” Japan in images possible? Bohr’s anthology provides intriguing answers to this challenging question. This is a genuinely interdisciplinary and transcultural work that traces the production and global reshaping of “Japanese” images in post-World War II Japan and beyond. * Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan *
Japan may not be quite the fearsome economic dynamo it once was, but for that very reason its art world is attracting ever more attention. This book is a compelling series of essays by major scholars on the full spread of Japanese art from the immediate post-War, to now. It is essential reading for all those interested in Japan, in Modernity, in Contemporary Art, and in how non-Western modes of expression compete and conflate with those coming from the West. * Timon Screech, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan *
‘Rich in tangible examples ranging from art photography and film culture through to video games, this volume demonstrates the importance of studying Japan and "Japan", proving how inextricably linked they are.
Capture Japan will prove highly valuable in the Japanese-studies classroom and beyond.’ * Jaqueline Berndt, Professor in Japanese Language and Culture, Stockholm University, Sweden *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Text and Translation
Introduction, Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Part One: Signs Introduction to Part One,
Marco Bohr 1. Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinematic Japan,
Miyao Daisuke (University of California, USA) 2. Dreaming of Mexico: Japanese Artists Discover the Other,
Ramona Bajema (Japan Society, USA) 3. Re/Placing Barthes in the Post-Bubble Era: Youthful Disaffection, Online Fandom, and the Reoriented Visions of ‘Japan’ in Iwai Shunji’s
All About Lily Chou-Chou,
Man-tat Terence Leung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Part Two: Myths Introduction to Part Two, Marco Bohr 4. The ‘Last Japanese Soldier’: Putting the Nation into Play, Martin Picard (Leipzig University, Germany) and Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 5. Sugimoto Hiroshi and the Emergence of a Geopolitical ‘Japanese style’, Marco Bohr
(Nottingham Trent University, UK) 6. Japan as an ‘erotic paradise’ in the Sino-Japanese mobility context: ethnographic encounters, Jamie Coates
(University of Sheffield, UK) Part Three: Ruins Introduction to Part Three, Marco Bohr 7. Shadows of the Atomic Bombings in
The Family of Man: The American photographic exhibition tour of Japan in the post-occupation period,
Takenaka Yumi Kim (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 8. Fractured Land, Then and Now: The Resurgence of Ruins in the 1996 Japan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale
, Carrie L. Cushman (University of Hartford, USA) 9. Burnt Dresses Left for the Future – Ishiuchi Miyako’s photographic series
hiroshima (2007–present),
Hagiwara Hiroko (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Part Four: Transformations Introduction to Part Four, Marco Bohr 10. Representing Japan: Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping in the many Careers of Yamaguchi Yoshiko,
Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield, UK) 11. Myth,
Manga, Technology and Gender:
Chobits and the Postwar Pygmalion,
Selma A. Purac (Western University, Canada) 12. Personal Connections and Global Relations: Staging “Japan of the Imagination” in the 1980s,
Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) Index
