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Discursive history of Hawai`i as paradise in Japanese cinema: whose dreamland is it and what end does the dream serve? / Tezuka, Yoshiharu

Tezuka, Yoshiharu	Article
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Hawai`i occupies a special place in the imaginations of Japanese people. Ever since the end of World War II, Japanese media have portrayed Hawai`i as a paradisical dreamland. This does not mean the cultural meanings attributed to Hawai`i have remained constant over the past 70 years. Both the notion of ‘paradise’ and the content of the Hawaiian ‘dream’ have transformed along with changing socio-economic conditions and ideas about how Japanese people view themselves in relation to the outside world. This article examines Japanese films from the early postwar period to the present that portray Hawai`i as a ‘paradise’ in which ‘adoration’ and ‘yearning’ play out and ‘dreams’ are fulfilled. These cinematic discourses of ‘paradise’ and ‘dream’ first portrayed Japanese individuals as modern, wealthy national subjects during the postwar economic boom period that ended in the 1980s. In response to changing socio-economic conditions in the early twenty-first century, the dream of Hawai`i came to represent a more relaxed paradise and Japanese individuals were shown embracing an alternative ‘local’ lifestyle.

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Japanese Cinema ; Discursive History ; Hawai

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Japanese cinema in the global system: an Asian classical cinema / Russel, Catherine

Russel, Catherine	Journal Article
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This essay argues that the Japanese cinema of the studio era, roughly from 1930 to 1960, should be considered as a "classical cinema" that occurred in parallel fashion to classical Hollywood cinema, which flourished during the same period. It is important to shift the discussion from the terms of an art cinema to those of a popular industrial cinema to fully understand the potential influence of Japanese cinema in Asia and globally as a body of Films recycled on broadcast TV and DVD Formats

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Japanese Cinema ; Global System ; Asian - Classical Cinema ; Japanese Cinema - Commercial Aspect ; Gendai - Geki ; Jidai - Eiga

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