Dear Friends, I just want to call your attention to a new book published on an important topic that should be of interested to members of this list. David --------------------------------------------------- Mick Broderick (ed), HIBAKUSHA CINEMA: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film, Kegan Paul International, London, UK 1996. 256 pages, cloth, 22 b&w plates US$76.50, ISBN 071030529X. Available from: (US/Canada): Columbia University Press, New York, USA. Tel: (212) 666 1000 Fax: (212) 316 3100(Europe/elsewhere): John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex, England. Tel: (01234) 779 777, Fax: (01234) 820 250 Other enquiries, email: [log in to unmask] >> >>Contents: >>Mick Broderick, "Editor's introduction" >>Donald Richie, "'Mono No Aware': Hiroshima on Film" >>Susan Sontag, "The Imagination of Disaster" >>Chon Noriega, "Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! Is U.S." >>Ben Crawford, "Emperor Tomato-Ketchup: Cartoon Properties from Japan" >>Freda Freiberg, "Akira - and the Postnuclear Sublime >>Kyoko Hirano, "Depiction of the Atomic Bombings in Japanese Cinema During the >>US Occupation Period" >>Abe Mark Nornes, "The Body at the Center -The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on >>Hiroshima and Nagasaki" >>Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa's dreams and >>rhapsodies" >>James Goodwin, "Akira Kurosawa and the Atomic Age" >>John T. Dorsey & Naomi Matsuoka, "Narrative Strategies of Understatement in >>Black Rain as a Novel and a Film" >>Maya Morioka Todeschini, "Death and the Maiden: Female Hibakusha as Cultural >>Heroines and the Politics of A-bomb Memory" > >_____________________________________ >David Desser,UIUC Cinema Studies >2109 FLB/707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801 >217/244-2705 > ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]