[KineJapan] CFP Reminder: Capture Japan – Visual Culture and the Global Imagination

[jacline MORICEAU]

Very interesting

Jacline Moriceau

Le ven. 14 sept. 2018 à 20:50, Marco Bohr <marcus.bohr at network.rca.ac.uk> a
écrit :

> Contributions are now being accepted for a new edited book titled ‘Capture
> Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present’.
> The book aims to analyse, deconstruct and challenge representations of
> Japan in a variety of different visual media such as cinema, documentary
> film, photography, visual art, anime, manga, comics, television or
> advertising. Through a series of case studies by an international group of
> experts in the field, the book will highlight the institutional framework
> that has allowed certain types of images of Japan to be promoted, while
> others have been suppressed. The book will point to a vast network of
> global institutions, each concerned with a different type of image of Japan
> that fits into an ideological, political, cultural or economic agenda.
> Internationally, these institutions include film production companies or
> art museums and galleries, whereas in Japan they include local tourist
> boards, government agencies or computer game manufacturers. Whilst these
> institutions have differing interests, this book will identify common
> threads in the type of image of Japan that is being imagined, produced and
> promoted by such institutions. The book will make the argument that these
> images are visual tropes that feed into a type of Japan of the global
> imagination.
>
> The book will identify that the 1952 ‘Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and
> Security between Japan and the United States of America’ – commonly known
> as Anpo in Japan – marked the beginning of an era or unprecedented peace
> and prosperity. Whilst in Japan Anpo created many questions about
> sovereignty and political agency, particularly during the amendment of
> 1960, the treaty has underpinned the global economic axis of the post-war
> era between Japan and the west. The book will argue that the institutional
> support for certain visual tropes of Japan thus feeds into a larger
> discourse of maintaining the global economic, political and ideological
> order of the post-war era. Japan, and how it is represented in images, is
> therefore inextricably linked to its role in maintaining this status quo
> since 1952. The proposed book will come out at a crucial time since the
> re-emergence of China as the largest economy in the world is poised to
> affect the global economic (dis)equilibrium that has dominated much of the
> last 70 years. The book will investigate whether the visual discourse of
> Japan in the global imagination is about to shift into a new era.
>
> The word ‘capture’ in the title of the book recognizes a level of
> dominance, even aggression with regards to images and how they feed into a
> larger discourse. It is also a play on words on the photographic term to
> ‘capture’, as well as the notion of a spectacle that is ‘captivating’.
> Contributions to this book by a diverse and interdisciplinary group of
> scholars will be conscious of the way images feed into, construct or
> subvert notions about Orientalism (Said) as well as self-exoticising
> discourses such as Strategic Essentialism (Spivak). Contributors might also
> consider how images sought to disrupt, subvert or at least challenge visual
> tropes about Japan thus complicating notions about a global imagination.
> Contributors might draw from the legacies of Japonisme of the 19th century
> or the rapid shifts the way Japan was perceived, and perceived itself,
> through images from the Meiji, Taisho or early Showa era, however the
> historical timespan for case studies is strictly from 1952 to the present.
>
> Please send a 200 to 250 word abstract as well as a 100 short biography to
> the editor of the book Dr. Marco Bohr m.bohr at lboro.ac.uk by the 1st of
> October 2018. Accepted contributors will receive notification by the 1st of
> November 2018. The full chapter of around 6500 words will be due in early
> 2019 with a view to publish the book in 2020. Marco can be contacted for
> any inquiries contributors might have.
>
> http://visualcultureblog.com/2018/07/call-for-papers-capture-japan-visual-culture-and-the-global-imagination/
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