
Capture Japan
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The word 'capture' in the title of the book recognises both the deeply problematic role that images have played in relation to colonialism, as well as the potential dominance that visual spectacles can wield in a contemporary context. Diverse essays from a wide range of perspectives investigate the institutional framework that has allowed certain types of images of Japan to be promoted, while others have been suppressed.
In doing so, the book points to a vast network of images that have shaped the perception of Japan both from within and from outside, revealing how these images are inextricably linked to wider ideological, political, cultural or economic agendas.
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Introduction, Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Part One: Signs
Introduction to Part One, Marco Bohr
1. Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville's Cinematic Japan, Miyao Daisuke (University of California, USA)
2. Dreaming of Mexico: Japanese Artists Discover the Other, Ramona Bajema (Japan Society, USA)
3. Re/Placing Barthes in the Post-Bubble Era: Youthful Disaffection, Online Fandom, and the Reoriented Visions of 'Japan' in Iwai Shunji's All About Lily Chou-Chou, Man-tat Terence Leung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Part Two: Myths
Introduction to Part Two, Marco Bohr
4. The 'Last Japanese Soldier': Putting the Nation into Play, Martin Picard (Leipzig University, Germany) and Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
5. Sugimoto Hiroshi and the Emergence of a Geopolitical 'Japanese style', Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
6. Japan as an 'erotic paradise' in the Sino-Japanese mobility context: ethnographic encounters, Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part Three: Ruins
Introduction to Part Three, Marco Bohr
7. Shadows of the Atomic Bombings in The Family of Man: The American photographic exhibition tour of Japan in the post-occupation period, Takenaka Yumi Kim (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
8. Fractured Land, Then and Now: The Resurgence of Ruins in the 1996 Japan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Carrie L. Cushman (University of Hartford, USA)
9. Burnt Dresses Left for the Future - Ishiuchi Miyako's photographic series Hiroshima (2007-present), Hagiwara Hiroko (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Part Four: Transformations
Introduction to Part Four, Marco Bohr
10. Representing Japan: Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping in the many Careers of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield, UK)
11. Myth, Manga, Technology and Gender: Chobits and the Postwar Pygmalion, Selma A. Purac (Western University, Canada)
12. Personal Connections and Global Relations: Staging "Japan of the Imagination" in the 1980s, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia)
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