内容説明
Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema.
According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world.
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According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world.
www.atomicbombcinema.com
From Publishers Weekly
Hollywood may shelve its bomb movies and Law & Order may cut the Twin Towers out of its opening credits, but it's full steam ahead for Jerome F. Shapiro's Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. From "prototypical bomb films" such as 1927's Metropolis to modern farces like The Naked Gun 2 1/2. Shapiro, an assistant professor at Hiroshima University, examines hundreds of movies that deal with survival in the face of destructive power. It's a dense and scholarly volume, and one that film students will pounce upon. Others might, too, if they buy Shapiro's thesis that "atomic bomb cinema is the paradigmatic site of struggle over cultural power for our times."
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Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema.
According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world.
About the Author
Jerome F. Shapiro is Associate Professor of Cinema and Comparative Culture at Hiroshima University.
