Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy

Kate Taylor-Jones is Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at The University of Sheffield, UK. She has published on topics including colonial Japanese and Korean cinema, cinema and landscape in East Asia, and domestic violence and the sex trade. She is author of Rising Sun, Divided Land: Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers (2013); and editor-in-chief of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. She is co-editor with Fiona Handyside of International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (2015).

Introduction

Part One: Colonial Cinema and the Imperial Machine
Chapter One Constructing the Cinematic Japanese Empire: Taiwan and Korea
Chapter Two Nation’s in Harmony: Imperial cinema
Chapter Three Landscape and the space of the colonial moment
Chapter Four Army Recruitment Films
Chapter Five Imperial Women

Part Two: Contemporary Manifestations and the Legacy of Empire
Introduction to Part Two
Chapter Six Legacy of Empire
Chapter Seven Japan Remembers, Japan Forgets
Chapter Eight Remembering Nanjing
Chapter Nine Transnational Legacy and Conclusion

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