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Offers the first ethno-historical study of cinema-going and film viewership in JapanIntroduces an ethno-historical approach to Japanese Film Studies for the first time, in order to bring the rarely-heard voices of everyday viewers into scholarly discourseBlends ethnographic and film studies approaches to create a new methodology for visually analysing interview materialContributes scholarship on cinema in the Kansai region and neighbouring areas of Western Japan to extant Tokyo-based and national-level scholarshipGives an account of regional difference in cinema-going and film-viewing in JapanCombining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers.Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant observation, questionnaire surveys, and written communications with over 100 study participants in the Kansai region of Western Japan. This is an in-depth study of memories of cinema-going among the generations who regularly attended film theatres between 1945-1968, the peak period of production and cinema attendance in Japan. Through investigating the role of film viewership, broadly conceived, in the formation of a postwar sense of self, the reader will benefit from rare access to the voices of grass-roots viewers, who often tell a different version of cinema history and its effects than that available in extant scholarship

While war narratives on film generally focus on male characterisation, this article suggests that analysis of female images in the war film can reveal processes of commemoration and memorialisation at work within the war film genre. Taking examples from the 'war-retro' genre popular in 1950s–1970s Japan, the author argues that the female image functions as an emotional screen in the war-retro film, anchoring the sympathies and emotions of the viewer to the leading characters and their inherent political affiliations. The female victims and onlookers of the war-retro film draw the sympathies of the viewer and heighten emotional investment in the stakes of the narrative, emotions which are then transferred to the impassive heroes. This article demonstrates the powerful techniques at work within the imagistic structure of the war-retro film which effect a virtual re-writing of history by creating a new collective national memory of war.

The Sociolinguistics of Narrative; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; The sociolinguistics of narrative; Narrative as a resource in accounts of the experience of illness; Storying East-German pasts; Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation; Masculinity, collaborative narration and the heterosexual couple; Contextualizing and recontextualizing interlaced stories in conversation; Hearing voices; Modes of meaning making in young children's conversational storytelling; Two systems of mutual engagement

Introduction / Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari -- A question of form : dissent and the Nouvelle vague / Isolde Standish -- Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics : the Abe Sada incident in films / Katsuyuki Hidaka -- The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless : agency, constraint and what is worthy of film censorship in trans-war Japan / Iris Haukamp -- Tarzan and Japan : racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya / Deanna T. Nardy -- Down in the dumps : Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime / Alisa Freedman -- Cinema at the edge of the world : visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi / Lindsay Nelson -- How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku documentary trilogy (2011-2013) / Ran Ma -- The Japanese Self-Defence Forces and cinematic productions : resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence / Atsuko Fukuura and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Politicizing the audience? Film fans' experiences of cinema in the 1960s / Jennifer Coates -- Cinematic responses to queer aging / Yutaka Kubo.