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...Jinsoo An This essay examines Cold War political discourse in South Korea's Manchurian action films. It opens by questioning the interpretive parameters of South Korea's cinematic war narratives, which isolate the military conflict of the Korean War (1950–53, in its conventional periodization...

...: University of Washington Press, Jinsoo An, “The Ambivalence of the Nationalist Struggle in Deterritorialized Space: The Case of South Korea’s Manchurian Action Film,” China Information, Fall June Yip, Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction...

...Jie Li This article examines a collection of documentary films produced by the South Manchurian Railway Company (Mantetsu) in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo as the first part of a broader study of films produced in and about Manchuria in the 1930s and 1940s. Taking up a common description...

...Tani Barlow Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Editor’s Introduction Tani Barlow In his accounting of Mantetsu and Man’ei ethnographic films, “Phantasma- goric Manchukuo: Documentaries Produced by the South Manchurian Rail...

... ‘Ijobu’’or cafk waitress in Harbin after he is brought over to Manchuria by Amakasu Masahiko because of his expertise in making entertainment films and his belief that Manchurian women, Chinese women, White Russian women...

... subsidized by the South Korean state, Korean War films typically “promote a vision of tradition-­based humanism as the foun- dation for the national community.” By contrast, low-­budget Manchurian action films, which feature treasure-­seeking...

... Masahiko, director of the Manchu- rian Film Association, welcomed converts from the left to Manchuria, and allowed them to settle, treating them relatively kindly. Further, the Manchurian Railroad’s Survey Division hired a number of former...

... influenced Nakai’s insistence on a critique of capitalism in his writings throughout the 1930s. The militarist discourse of “national crisis” and “state renovation” arose with the Manchurian Incident in September 1931, when Japanese milita...

...- forming the silent Lo-Tsen into two European women, one English (Sondra) and the other Russian (Maria). 35 This was quite literally the case because, as Chang explains, nearly half a century before, Lo- Tsen was a young Manchurian...

...-­Garde Films in Kikigaki, 274 – 75. 85. Kimura Sotoji and Satô Tadao, “ ‘Keikô eiga’ kara manei e” (“From ‘Tendency Films’ to Manchurian Film Company in Kôza Nihon eiga 2: Musei eiga no kansei (Lectures on Japa- Miyao ❘ Bright...

..., South Pacific Islanders, and Manchurians. Until quite recently, scholars have tended to assume that most Japanese imperialists didn’t grant credence to the concept but merely deployed it when it was politically expedient, all the while...

... mats of igusa reeds ordinarily used to surface tatami (tatami-omote­ ).32 In Manchuria, some of the highest quality company housing in the empire, the houses built for executives of the South Manchurian Railroad looked entirely Western...

..., 62–63. 25 Rohmer, TMFM, 70. 26 Harris, Silence, 20. 27 Rohmer, TMFM, 71. 28 Harris, Silence, 14. 29 Fu Manchu is a Manchurian prince; Hannibal Lecter a Lithuanian duke. But Lecter...

.... positions 7:2 Fall 1999 292 woman in Manchurian dress with high collar, flat bodice, and full skirt (fig. I). She sits formally, facing the viewer, with one arm crooked over...

... as the Japanese military comfort women system, the Japanese sexual slavery system operated, for the most part, during the period of the Manchurian and Pacific wars, from 1932 to 1945. The system was planned and implemented for the sexual satiation...

.... The Manchurian Russians were allowed to participate in the epoch-­making war to a much lesser extent than even Koreans: the typical annual quotas for Koreans volunteering to join the Japanese army after 1938 (when the army began to accept them) were...

... of Oki- nawans who died as a result of the fifteen years of conflict beginning with the Manchurian Incident will also be inscribed. Examples include: death in an air raid, fatal accidents during evacuation, death...

... 458 Introduction On July 18, 1965, the Sunday Mainichi magazine published an article trum- peting its release of “rediscovered” World War II – era photos, a set of images that depicted “the long fifteen years of war, from the Manchurian...

...-rights movement, the discourse on national rights, the first Sino-Japanese War, the Russo- Japanese War, and World War I to the Manchurian Incident, the second Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, Japan’s defeat, and the Tokyo War...

... who did not were relegated to the regular schools.11 The Manchurian Incident of 1931, in which the Japanese Kwantung Army detonated explosives near railroad lines owned by the South Manchu- ria Railway in order to gain...