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The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
Christopher Perkins
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Description for The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
Hardcover. This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 156 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; JFD; JPWQ; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.
This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Number of Pages
147
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137480347
SKU
V9781137480347
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99-15
About Christopher Perkins
Christopher Perkins is Lecturer in Japanese in the department of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Royal Holloway University of London and has published articles and book chapters on Japanese media, memory politics, cinema, and border politics.
Reviews for The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
"In this important treatment of Japanese cinematic memory texts dealing with the United Red Army, Chris Perkins brings together politics, aesthetics and history to offer a new interpretation of how the events surrounding the United Red Army's descent into violence have been represented and read as an ongoing trauma for Japanese society, and for the Left in particular. The dominant ... Read more