Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

Contents Introduction - Rachel DiNitto Toxicscapes 1. Temporality and Landscapes of Reclamation: Johnny Depp Goes to Minamata - Christine L. Marran 2. Hedorah vs. Hyperobject; or Why Smog Monsters Are Real and We Must Object to Object-Oriented Ontologies - Jonathan Abel 3. The Toxic Vitality of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Charisma - Rachel DiNitto 4. Plastic Garbage in Kore-eda Hirokazu's Air Doll - Davinder L. Bhowmik Contaminated Futures and Childhoods 5. Environmental Anxiety and the Toxic Earth of Space Battleship Yamato - Kaoru Tamura 6. Miyazaki Hayao's Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema: Rereading Nausicaä - Roman Rosenbaum 7. You Can (Not) Restore: Ecocritique and Intergenerational Ecological Conflict in Evangelion - Christopher Smith 8. Jellyfish Eyes (2013) and the Struggle for Reenchantment - Laura Lee Nuclear Anxiety and Violence 9. The Reimagination of Godzilla: The Concealment of Nuclear Violence - Shan Ren 10. The Walking Nuclear Disaster: Nuclear Terrorism and the Meaning of the Atom in The Man Who Stole the Sun - Eugenio De Angelis 11. Representing the Unrepresentable: Hibakusha Cinema, Historiography, and Memory in Rhapsody in August - Adam Bingham 12. Hibakusha Film as Genre, and the Slow Violence Depicted in Morisaki Azuma's Nuclear Gypsies - Jeffrey DuBois 13. Nuclear Visuality and Popular Resistance in Kamanaka Hitomi's Eco-Disaster Documentaries - Andrea Gevurtz Arai Ruined and Apocalyptic Landscapes 14. Diverging Imaginations of Planetary Change: The Media Franchise of Japan Sinks - Hideaki Fujiki 15. Technology, Urban Sprawl, and the Apocalyptic Imagination in Hiroyuki Seshita's BLAME! (2017) - Amrita S. Iyer 16. Stranded among Eternal Ruins: Three Films about "Fukushima" - Aidana Bolatbekkyzy 17. Disaster and the Landscape of the Heart in Asako I & II (2018) - Dong Hoon Kim List of Films Discussed in This Volume About the Editor and Contributors