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The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory

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  1. Christopher Perkins

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The URA, Politics and the Aesthetics of Memory

    • Christopher Perkins
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Japanese New Left and the URA

    • Christopher Perkins
    Pages 18-46

  4. A Spectacle of Sex, Violence and Madness

    • Christopher Perkins
    Pages 47-67

  5. Horror, Sympathy and Empathy

    • Christopher Perkins
    Pages 68-91

  6. The Image, Seeing and the Siege

    • Christopher Perkins
    Pages 92-120

  7. Conclusion

    • Christopher Perkins
    Pages 121-128

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 129-147
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About this book

This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.

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"In this important treatment of Japanese cinematic memory texts dealing with the United Red Army, Chris Perkins brings together politics, aesthetics and history to offer a new interpretation of how the events surrounding the United Red Army's descent into violence have been represented and read as an ongoing trauma for Japanese society, and for the Left in particular. The dominant aesthetic of politicised and gendered ky?ki (madness) surrounding the URA creates through its universalism a 'trap'; violence and madness appear to be the natural ends of all left wing politics. Perkins traces the emergence of this dominant aesthetic alongside resistant processes. In doing so, he offers a new and challenging take on the generalised 'trouble with history' in Japan - the desire to suppress the past and the simultaneous searching in history for political relevance for the present condition." - Mark Pendleton, University of Sheffield, UK

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Christopher Perkins

About the author

Christopher Perkins is Lecturer in Japanese in the department of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Royal Holloway University of London and has published articles and book chapters on Japanese media, memory politics, cinema, and border politics.

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