Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film

by Broderick and Mick Broderick

Book Overview

First Published in 1996. This collection of works is in response to American film scholar and long-term resident of Japan, Donald Richie, words: ' The Japanese failure to come to terms with Hiroshima is one which is shared by everybody in the world today, ' from over thirty years ago, when responding to the Japanese subgenre of cinema which had dealt with the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three decades on, the question lingers, does this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071030529X
• ISBN13: 9780710305299
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"