10. The Promise and Limits of “Pop Culture Diplomacy” in East Asia: Contexts-Texts- Reception

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Divided Lenses 1
5. Part I. Screen Histories of War in East Asia
6. 1. War, History, and Remembrance in Chinese Cinema 21
7. 2. Of Female Spies and National Heroes: A Brief History of Anti-Japanese Films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s 40
8. 3. The “Division Blockbuster” in South Korea: The Evolution of Cinematic Representations of War and Division 62
9. 4. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun: Imagining the Pacific War in the Japanese Cinema 74
10. 5. Japanese Manga and Anime on the Asia-Pacific War Experience 101
11. 6. Continuity and Change in Hollywood’s Representations of American-Asian Relations in War and Peace 126
12. Part II. Reading War Trauma
13. 7. Oscillating Histories: Representations of Comfort Women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women 153
14. 8. Shooting the Enemy: Photographic Attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose 175
15. 9. War and Nationalism in Recent Japanese Cinema: Yamato, Kamikaze, Trauma, and Forgetting the Postwar 196
16. 10. The Promise and Limits of “Pop Culture Diplomacy” in East Asia: Contexts-Texts- Reception 220
17. 11. History and Its Alternatives: War Games as Social Form 252
18. Films, Television, and Videogames 281
19. Bibliography 291
20. Contributors 307
21. Index 311