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Author:   Mick Broderick ,  Broderick
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781138863552

ISBN 10:   1138863556
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   04 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Broderick Mick; Chapter 1 ‘Mono no aware’: Hiroshima in Film, Richie Donald; Chapter 2 The Imagination of Disaster, Sontag Susan; Chapter 3 Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! is U.S., Noriega Chon A; Chapter 4 Emperor Tomato-Ketchup: Cartoon Properties From Japan, Crawford Ben; Chapter 5 Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime, Freiberg Freda; Chapter 6 Depiction of the Atomic Bombings in Japanese Cinema During the U.S. Occupation Period, Hirano Kyoko; Chapter 7 The Body at the Center – The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Norms Abé Mark; Chapter 8 The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa’s Dreams and Rhapsodies, Ehrlich Linda C; Chapter 9 Akira Kurosawa and the Atomic Age, Goodwin James; Chapter 10 Narrative Strategies of Understatement in Black Rain as a Novel and a Film, Dorsey John T., Matsuoka Naomi; Chapter 11 ‘Death and the Maiden’: Female Hibakusha as Cultural Heroines, and the Politics of A-bomb Memory, Todeschini Maya Morioka;

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Mick Broderick is author of Nuclear Movies (1991), is completing a PhD in apocalyptic narrative and currently works for the Australian Film Commission in Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on nuclear themes in film, and was invited by Physicians for Social Responsibility to co-curate The Atomic Age in Film Series, a retrospective of nuclear cinema screened in Los Angeles throughout 1995.

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