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Stars as Role Models Stars as Role Models
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Hara Setsuko as a Model of Femininity Hara Setsuko as a Model of Femininity
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Takakura Ken as Male Role Model Takakura Ken as Male Role Model
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Meeting a Film Star: Everyday Encounters in Postwar Kansai Meeting a Film Star: Everyday Encounters in Postwar Kansai
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Being Japanese in the Global Postwar Being Japanese in the Global Postwar
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Catching Up: Postwar Japanese Film Production versus Hollywood Catching Up: Postwar Japanese Film Production versus Hollywood
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Growing Up with the Cinema in Postwar Japan Growing Up with the Cinema in Postwar Japan
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Expanding the Boundaries of Being through Cinema Expanding the Boundaries of Being through Cinema
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4 Stars, Occupiers, Parents and Role Models: Cinema as a Way of Being (Japanese)
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Published:October 2022
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Abstract
Chapter 4 develops explores talking about cinema as a device for communicating a way of being, by analysing study participants’ accounts of learning new ways of living, being, and thinking of oneself through cinema. For the generation who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, the high-art element and international recognition of later postwar cinema lead to a sense of Japan as a leading artistic force, generating positive associations with being Japanese. In contrast, the elder generation recounted a perception of Japan as being behind an imagined international standard cinematically in the early years of the postwar era, for example, importing films years after their distribution in other countries. While cinema was discussed as a mode of marking Japan’s relative advancement or developmental lag related to other parts of the world, film viewership was also understood as a mode of improving the individual, as well as the national, self. The second part of this chapter develops an account of viewership as a means of seeing and feeling surprising or emotional things, to argue for a dominant understanding among committed film fans of the viewing experience as a sensory invitation to sympathetic or ethical co-feeling, and to historical understanding.
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