Divided Lenses : Screen Memories of War in East Asia

__Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia__ is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which left a lasting imprint on East Asia and the world. By bringing together a variety of specialists in the cinemas of East Asia and offering divergent yet complementary perspectives, the book explores how the legacies of war have been reimagined through the lens of film. This turbulent era opened with the Mukden Incident of 1931, which signaled a new page in Japanese militaristic aggression in East Asia, and culminated with the Korean War (1950–1953), a protracted conflict that broke out in the wake of Japan's post–World War II withdrawal from Korea. __Divided Lenses__ explores the ways in which events of the intervening decades have continued to shape politics and popular culture throughout East Asia and the world. The essays in part I examine historical trends at work in various "national" cinemas, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the United States. Those in part 2 focus on specific themes present in the cinema portraying this period—such as comfort women in Chinese film, the Nanjing Massacre, or nationalism—and how they have been depicted or renegotiated in contemporary films. Of particular interest are contributions drawing from other forms of screen culture, such as television and video games. __Divided Lenses__ builds on the growing interest in East Asian cinema by examining how these historic conflicts have been imagined, framed, and revisited through the lens of cinema and screen culture. It will interest later generations living in the shadow of these events, as well as students and scholars in the fields of cinema studies, cultural studies, cold war studies, and World War II history. Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which left a lasting imprint on East Asia and the world. By bringing together a variety of specialists in the cinemas of East Asia and offering divergent yet complementary perspectives, the book explores how the legacies of war have been reimagined through the lens of film. This turbulent era opened with the Mukden Incident of 1931, which signaled a new page in Japanese militaristic aggression in East Asia, and culminated with the Korean War (1950 1953), a protracted conflict that broke out in the wake of Japan's post World War II withdrawal from Korea. Divided Lenses explores the ways in which events of the intervening decades have continued to shape politics and popular culture throughout East Asia and the world. The essays in part I examine historical trends at work in various national cinemas, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the United States. Those in part 2 focus on specific themes present in the cinema portraying this period such as comfort women in Chinese film, the Nanjing Massacre, or nationalism and how they have been depicted or renegotiated in contemporary films. Of particular interest are contributions drawing from other forms of screen culture, such as television and video games. Divided Lenses builds on the growing interest in East Asian cinema by examining how these historic conflicts have been imagined, framed, and revisited through the lens of cinema and screen culture. It will interest later generations living in the shadow of these events, as well as students and scholars in the fields of cinema studies, cultural studies, cold war studies, and World War II history. War, History, And Remembrance In Chinese Cinema / Yingjin Zhang -- Of Female Spies And National Heroes : A Brief History Of Anti-japanese Films In Taiwan From The 1950s To The 1970s / Wenchi Lin -- The Division Blockbuster In South Korea: The Evolution Of Cinematic Representations Of War And Division / Hyangjin Lee -- Under The Flag Of The Rising Sun: Imagining And Reimagining The Pacific War In The Japanese Cinema / David Desser -- Japanese Manga And Anime On The Asia-pacific War Experience / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Continuity And Change In Hollywood's Representations Of American-asian Relations In War And Peace / Robert Brent Toplin -- Oscillating Histories : Representations Of Comfort Women From Bamboo House Of Dolls To Imperial Comfort Women / Lily Wong -- Shooting The Enemy : Photographic Attachment In The Children Of Huang Shi And Scarlet Rose / Michael Berry -- War And Nationalism In Recent Japanese Cinema : Yamato, Trauma, And Forgetting The Postwar / Aaron Gerow -- The Promise And Limits Of Pop Culture Diplomacy In East Asia : Contexts-texts-reception / Chiho Sawada -- History And Its Alternatives : War Games As Social Form / Eric Hayot. Edited By Michael Berry And Chiho Sawada. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 291-305), Filmography (pages 281-290) And Index. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Divided Lenses Part I. Screen Histories of War in East Asia 1. War, History, and Remembrance in Chinese Cinema 2. Of Female Spies and National Heroes: A Brief History of Anti-Japanese Films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s 3. The “Division Blockbuster” in South Korea: The Evolution of Cinematic Representations of War and Division 4. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun: Imagining the Pacific War in the Japanese Cinema 5. Japanese Manga and Anime on the Asia-Pacific War Experience 6. Continuity and Change in Hollywood’s Representations of American-Asian Relations in War and Peace Part II. Reading War Trauma 7. Oscillating Histories: Representations of Comfort Women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women 8. Shooting the Enemy: Photographic Attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose 9. War and Nationalism in Recent Japanese Cinema: Yamato, Kamikaze, Trauma, and Forgetting the Postwar 10. The Promise and Limits of “Pop Culture Diplomacy” in East Asia: Contexts-Texts- Reception 11. History and Its Alternatives: War Games as Social Form Films, Television, and Videogames Bibliography Contributors Index Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first ever attempt to explore how the tumultuous years from 1931 through 1953 in East Asia have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This is a period which encapsulated such traumatic conflicts as the Sino-Japanese War, The Pacific War, and The Korean War and iconic incidents such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which makes this two-decade span particularly important in terms of the lasting legacy these events have had on East Asia, and the world. This volume takes a cross-cultural approach by bringing together specialists in the cinemas of Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, and the United States who offer a multitude of divergent yet complimentary perspectives on how the wages of war have been reimagined through the lens of film. Divided Lenses explores war in East Asia not only through cinema, but also through alternative screen cultures, such as television and video games, featuring essays by several of the leading experts in Asian Cinema, including Yingjin Zhang and David Desser along with a group of younger scholars

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This volume explores how East Asia's tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts, such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War and the Korean War, as well as pivotal events, including the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which left a lasting imprint on East Asia and the world. By bringing together a variety of specialists in the cinemas of the region and offering divergent yet complementary perspectives, this title examines how the legacies of war have been reimagined through the lens of film Explores how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. By bringing together a variety of specialists in the cinemas of East Asia and offering divergent yet complementary perspectives, the book explores how the legacies of war have been reimagined through the lens of film.