Abstract
The Asia-Pacific War, which raged between 1941 through 1945, had offered the film industry many themes to capitalize upon and exploit. This paper is an enquiry into the images of the Japanese-American War in epic war films; how the war was reconstructed in historical memory through the visual medium of feature films, focusing only on the American-Japanese conflict. The themes of the inquiry include the outbreak of the war; the attendant propaganda and the call to arms; selected battles during the course of the war; Japanese attitudes and treatment of their prisoners of war; and the deployment of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 which brought the Asia-Pacific War to an end. If war is an extension of politics by other means, to what extent are war films an extension of the war through other means?
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Representations of War in Films and Novels |
| Publisher | Peter Lang AG |
| Pages | 179-200 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783653060928 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783631669662 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 9 Oct 2015 |
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Keywords
- Feature Films
- Images of war
- Japan
- Pacific War
- United States
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)
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Images of the Asia-Pacific War in selected feature films. / Mason, Richard; Ramli, Rashila.
Representations of War in Films and Novels. Peter Lang AG, 2015. p. 179-200.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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