The United Red Army on Screen

Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory

Christopher Perkins

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Palgrave Pivot
17 September 2015

Media studies; Revolutionary groups & movements; Cinema industry

Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.

By: Christopher Perkins
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 3.011kg
ISBN: 9781137480347
ISBN 10: 1137480343
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Pages: 147
Publication Date: 17 September 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The URA, politics and the aesthetics of memory 2. The Japanese New Left and the URA 3. A spectacle of sex, violence and madness 4. Horror, sympathy and empathy 5. The Image, Seeing and the Siege 6. Conclusion

Christopher Perkins is Lecturer in Japanese in the department of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Royal Holloway University of London and has published articles and book chapters on Japanese media, memory politics, cinema, and border politics.

Reviews for The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and The Politics of Memory

""In this important treatment of Japanese cinematic memory texts dealing with the United Red Army, Chris Perkins brings together politics, aesthetics and history to offer a new interpretation of how the events surrounding the United Red Army's descent into violence have been represented and read as an ongoing trauma for Japanese society, and for the Left in particular. The dominant aesthetic of politicised and gendered ky?ki (madness) surrounding the URA creates through its universalism a 'trap'; violence and madness appear to be the natural ends of all left wing politics. Perkins traces the emergence of this dominant aesthetic alongside resistant processes. In doing so, he offers a new and challenging take on the generalised 'trouble with history' in Japan - the desire to suppress the past and the simultaneous searching in history for political relevance for the present condition."" - Mark Pendleton, University of Sheffield, UK