[KineJapan] Book Announcement: Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

[Steve Choe]

Greetings,

Could you distribute the announcement of the publication of the following book to the group? There is a short note and then a description of the publication. Please make sure that the book cover image is included in the e-mail.

Thank you,
Steve Choe

To the KineJapan list:

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of the following by Professor Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano. This is the latest book released through the Critical Asian Cinemas series on Amsterdam University Press.

Sincerely,
Steve Choe

[cid:image002.png at 01D9E1D8.4A0557F0]Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima
Perspectives on Nuclear Disasters
In the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and politics, which remain mired in refusal to change. Nearly a decade in the making, Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima is based on in-person interviews with countless filmmakers, as well as continuous dialogue with them and their work. Author Wada-Marciano has expanded these dialogues to include students, audiences at screenings, critics, and researchers, and her observations are based on down-to-earth-exchange of ideas engaged in over a long period of time.

Filmmakers and artists are in the vanguard of those who grapple with what should be done regarding the struggle against fear of the invisible blight-radiation exposure. Rather than blindly following the mass media and public opinion, they have chosen to think and act independently. While repeatedly viewing and reviewing the film works from the post-Fukushima period, Wada-Marciano felt the unwavering message that emanates from them: "There must be no more nuclear weapons." "There must be no more nuclear power generation." The book is dedicated to convincing readers of the clarity of their message.


"Wada-Marciano's passion makes for compelling reading- detailing Japan's antinuclear cinema, she joins its refusal of the one-party democratic state's culture of enforced forgetting and simultaneously challenges privileging the arty and obscure in Japanese Film Studies."
. Professor Chris Berry, Dept. of Film Studies, King's College London

"Wada-Marciano's insightful on-the-ground interviews and astute analysis of cinematic content and techniques -in front of and behind the camera- introduce hard-to-find postdisaster films and argue persuasively for the urgency of the anti-nuclear as a theme in Japanese documentary film."
. Rachel DiNitto, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literatures, University of Oregon

For more information, please see: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728287/japanese-filmmakers-in-the-wake-of-fukushima



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