Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Note on Language ix
6. Introduction. The Politics of Media and Memory Representation in Japan 1
7. Part I. War’s Aftermath
8. Chapter 1. The Death of Certainty: Memory, Guilt and Redemption in Ikiru 21
9. Chapter 2. Postwar Narratives and the Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyō Shōnen 41
10. Chapter 3. Radical Subjectivity as a Counter to Japanese Humanist Cinema: Ōshima Nagisa’s Nūberu Bāgu 63
11. Part II. The Past in the Present
12. Chapter 4. Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes 83
13. Chapter 5. From Myth to Cult: Tragic Heroes, Parody and Gender Politics in the 1960s–1970s ‘Bad Girls’ Cinema of Japan 103
14. Chapter 6. Collective Remorse for the Past: Japanese Film and TV Representations of the 1960s Student Movement 122
15. Part III. The Persistence of Memory
16. Chapter 7. Depicting the Persistence of Being Postwar: Eden of the East 141
17. Chapter 8. Rethinking Anime in East Asia: Creative Labour in Transnational Production, or What Gets Lost in Translation 162
18. Conclusion: The Persistence of Trauma 182
19. Index 191