Deleuze, Japanese cinema, and the atom bomb : the spectre of impossibility /: the spectre of impossibility. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Deamer.
• Other Names: Deamer, David
• Contents: List of tables List of images Acknowledgements Introduction: event, cinema, cineosis 1. Special images, contingent centres Movement-images: Bergson, sensory-motor process The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Ito Sueo, 1946) Children of the Atom Bomb (Shindo Kaneto, 1952) Godzilla (Honda Ishiro, 1954) 2. Horizons of history Action-images: Nietzsche, history Terror of Mechagodzilla (Honda Ishiro, 1975) Lucky Dragon No. 5 (Shindo Kaneto, 1959) Barefoot Gen (Masaki Mori, 1983) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988) 3. Traces: symptoms and figures Impulse-images; reflection-images: Peirce, semiosis The Naked Island (Shindo Kaneto, 1960) Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike, 1999) Ring (Nakata Hideo, 1998) Kwaidan (Kobayashi Masaki, 1964) The Face of Another (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1966) Navel and A-bomb (Eikoh Hosoe, 1960) Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989) Face of Jizo (Kuroki Kazuo, 2004) 4. Consummation (and crisis) Mental-images: Bergson, memory I Live in Fear (Kurosawa Akira, 1955) Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950) Dreams (Kurosawa Akira, 1990) Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa Akira, 1991) 5. Impure anarchic multiplicities Time-images: Deleuze, syntheses of time Casshern (Kiriya Kazuaki, 2004) The Pacific War (Nagisa Oshima, 1968) A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (Imamura Shohei, 1970) Black Rain (Imamura Shohei, 1989) Hiroshima (Sekigawa Hideo, 1953) Conclusion: spectres of impossibility Notes Index Select bibliography Select filmography.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43095209045; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; PHILOSOPHY / General; Philosophy -- General; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Film theory & criticism; Motion pictures -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Nuclear warfare in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441145895; 1441145893
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