Japanese Visual Media

Jennifer Coates is a senior lecturer in Japanese studies in the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. Eyal Ben-Ari is director of the Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace, Israel.

Introduction
JENNIFER COATES AND EYAL BEN- ARI

SECTION A
Historical contexts
1 A question of form: dissent and the nouvelle vagueISOLDE STANDISH

2 Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics: the Abe Sada incident in films
KATSUYUKI HIDAKA

3 The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless: agency, constraint, and what is "worthy" of film censorship in trans-war Japan
IRIS HAUKAMP

4 Tarzan and Japan: racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya DEANNA T. NARDY

SECTION B
Critique, contestation, and resistance

5 Down in the dumps: Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime
ALISA FREEDMAN

6 Cinema at the edge of the world: visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi
LINDSAY NELSON

7 How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy (2011–2013)
RAN MA

SECTION C
Creating the political subject through media

8 The Japanese self-defence forces and cinematic productions: resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence
ATSUKO FUKUURA AND EYAL BEN-ARI

9 Politicizing the audience? Film fans’ experiences of cinema in the 1960s
JENNIFER COATES

10 Fading away from the screen: cinematic responses to queer ageing in contemporary Japanese cinema
YUTAKA KUBO