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Frenemies on Film: Rescreening the Sino-Indian War of 1962
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 769–801.
Published: 01 November 2023
[email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Sino‐Indian War Deoli camp propaganda film Films Division independent filmmaking I looked at our neighbors who were watching us carted off like common criminals: a grandmother . . . her thirteen-year-old granddaughter and eight-year...
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War as Business in South Korea's Manchurian Action Films
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2015
...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...
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Photography and Invisibility: Indexicality and Performativity Asia-Pacific War Memory in Tsukada Mamoru's Identical Twins Series (2003) and Suzuki Norio's Photos of Onoda Hiroo (1974)
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 389–429.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... The discussion in the text also illuminates a second idea—how complex is Japan's position toward the trauma of defeat and the specters of war, reflecting the complicated emotions experienced toward war memory and its representation in photographs, films, art, and other visual forms. The analysis of the two...
View articletitled, Photography and Invisibility: Indexicality and Performativity Asia-Pacific <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Memory in Tsukada Mamoru's Identical Twins Series (2003) and Suzuki Norio's Photos of Onoda Hiroo (1974)
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What Is Japanese Cinema?: Imamura Taihei’s Wartime Theory of Japanese Film, Tradition, and Art
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 597–621.
Published: 01 November 2019
... not as the total sum of films produced in Japan, or by Japanese filmmakers, but as a shared watching experience of films regardless of their country of origin. Measuring Imamura’s thesis against other theories of Japanese national cinema that were published around the same time, during World War II, the essay...
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Cosmopolitanism from Below: Union Film's Adaptation of World Classics
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., Situ Huimin司徒慧敏) and supported by Cantonese film leaders Ng Cho‐fan 吳楚帆 and Lo Duen 盧敦. The study interrogates the predicaments and vicissitudes of Union's cosmopolitan stances as it wrestled with the cultural politics of Chinese cinema during the Cold War. It elucidates the ethnically rooted...
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The Return of the Repressed: Uncanny Spaces of Nostalgia and Loss in Trần Anh Hùng's Cyclo
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2012
... be expressed in film and literature, which was not possible until the 1990s. This stems from a reevaluation of wartime suffering occurring now, a generation after the end of war in Vietnam in 1975. This also results from a gradual easing of state controls on arts and media in Vietnam in the 1990s. Recent...
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Voicing the Malayan Emergency: Ventriloquizing Subjectivity in British Colonial Film and Radio
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 741–767.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Peter J. Bloom Abstract British colonial film and radio broadcasting initiatives are described as a foundational context for shaping the Malayan Emergency (1948–60). The development and deployment of counterinsurgency techniques become a means by which to wage war against what came to be identified...
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Mnemonic Politics around the Japanese Colonial Era in Post–Cold War Taiwan: Wei Te-sheng's Colonial Trilogy and Post–New Cinema
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 839–862.
Published: 01 November 2023
... such as Japanese colonialism and Indigenous Taiwanese in the representational sphere began to appear on the screen. Therefore, the colonial memory that emerged on screen entangles with Cold War politics and the postcolonial geopolitical situation. In Wei's films, he links heroic Indigenous people in the history...
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“The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of Korean Transnational Adoption and the Korean War
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the ongoing presence of the US military in South Korea. The analysis highlights the ways in which Borshay Liem's and Kaisen's films make visible how such diasporas, linked to the larger diaspora produced by the Korean War, unsettle linear narratives of migration, arrival, and settlement. The failures...
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Imagining Reality as a Set of Chinese Boxes: An Interview with Matsumoto Toshio
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 907–930.
Published: 01 November 2014
... feature-length narrative films including Bara no soretsu ( Funeral Parade of Roses , 1969), Shura ( Demons , 1971), Juroku-sai no senso ( The War of the Sixteen-Year-Olds , 1973), and Dogura magura ( Dogra Magra , 1988). He has contributed significantly to the critical study of film in Japan as well...
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The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
... during Japan's Cold War restructuring. This essay reads cinema as a contentious site where articulations of sociopolitical sentiments and concerns with film's medium specificity find catalytic convergence with the continuous coding of gender. Rather than simply viewing female bodies as representations...
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Beautiful Violence : War, Peace, Globalization
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 759–771.
Published: 01 August 2004
... students to watch films about the
revolution. She never liked war films that involved killing and bloodshed
and tried to escape from such films as much as possible. But she did end up
Lu Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization 763...
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Gendered Globality as a Cold War Framework: International Dimensions of Chinese Female Bodies in the 1960s
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 603–630.
Published: 01 August 2020
... bodies Maoism Cold War feminism References Anderson Perry . ( 1974 ) 1989 . Lineages of the Absolutist State . New York : Verso . Braester Yomi . 2003 . Witness against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China . Stanford, CA : Stanford...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 November 2015
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churia action films as “Korean War cinema,” Jinsoo An provocatively argues
that this body of films, set during the colonial period, reveals — far more
than those films that overtly engage the Korean War as their governing
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Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s)
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 709–744.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Geoffrey M. White Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s)
Geoffrey M. White
For mainstream America, World War 11 remains largely the “good war.” Hut
events such as compensation for interned...
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Managing the “Moro Problem”: Fractured Nation/Narration in Bagong Buwan
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 393–420.
Published: 01 May 2011
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Bagong buwan came out in late 2001, it was likely with the memory of this
recent war, linked to a long history of violent clashes between the Moros and
the government, that Filipino moviegoers came to see the film.
Fractured Narrative:
The Philippine...
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A Conversation with Kobayashi Masaki
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 382–405.
Published: 01 May 1994
... The Human Condi-
tion (Ningen no Joken) and chose it as his next film project, compelled by
how closely the protagonist’s experiences of World War II echoed his own.
The nine-hour trilogy, three years in the making, established him...
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Interview with Christine Choy and Nancy Tong, Filmmakers (In the Name of the Emperor)
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 811–834.
Published: 01 August 1997
... of what the war was about, Asia pretty much got forgotten. The
film was never shown after ’38. He made four copies: One went to the
National Archives. Two went into somebody’s basement-you know, into
the family basement...
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Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 687–707.
Published: 01 August 1997
... and film footage of Hiro-
shima immediately after the bomb, were held in government archives until
their cultural meanings were considerably muted.4
Absent Images of Memory
Yet there are also events of World War 11 that did...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 733–740.
Published: 01 November 2023
... footage, Ray calls to account the Films Division to task for being a propagandistic mouthpiece for the Indian government in the fallout from the Indo-China War, Chung-Kang Kim discusses the pitfalls of high-tech yet simplified museological productions of past atrocities, and Bae's article looks at Japan's...
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