How to deal with the War in the air (massive bombing of cities)? War crimes' denial and narrative strategies.
| Week | Course Content | Course Video |
|---|---|---|
| Week 01 | Rewriting or whitewashing the past? The challenges post-war narratives of the conflict have to face in the United States, Japan, China, etc. | Watch Online |
| Week 01 | disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 02 | What is a post-War period? Chaos, trauma and social war in post-War Japan. | Watch Online |
| Week 02 | disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 03 | Summit meeting: Gen. Mac Arthur meets the Emperor – the proconsul and the defeated god. | Watch Online |
| Week 04 | From “monkeys” to the kind Japanese fiancee – how to redraw the enemy's silhouette at a time he has become an ally and a friend | Watch Online |
| Week 04 | disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 05 | Militarism deconstructed: the humanist/pacifist narratives on WWII in Japanese films in the 1960-1990. | Watch Online |
| Week 05 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 06 | “Comfort Women” as a cinematographic issue in Eastern Asia. | Watch Online |
| Week 06 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 07 | How to deal with the War in the air (massive bombing of cities)? War crimes' denial and narrative strategies. | Watch Online |
| Week 07 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 08 | On language and hegemony – at the end everybody speaks English – or not? | Watch Online |
| Week 08 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 09 | “The island” - utopia/ heterotopia in the womb of total war. | Watch Online |
| Week 09 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 10 | Memorial joint-ventures: towards a post-national (global?) narration of WWII in Eastern Asia and the Pacific? | Watch Online |
| Week 10 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 11 | Gender trouble: family portraits, whores and community of men at war. | Watch Online |
| Week 11 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 13 | Narrative rearmament: post-modern samurais and kamikaze fashion in contemporary Japanese cinema. | Watch Online |
| Week 13 | presentation & disscussion | Watch Online |
| Week 14 | Collective memory and anticipation : contemporary movies on WWII in Eastern Asia and in the Pacific explore the future of the region. | Watch Online |
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