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dc.contributor.authorSeaton, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-16T13:12:54Z
dc.date.available2023-03-16T13:12:54Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61724
dc.description.abstractWithin Japan’s contested memories of the Asia-Pacific War (1937-45), the depiction of soldiers, sailors and pilots in leading roles within cinematic/televisual representations of the war usually falls into one of three main patterns: ‘military heroes’ participating in a noble (albeit losing) war; ‘good Japanese’ facing down villainous militarists; and ‘victim-heroes’ suffering amidst the uncontrollable carnage of war. A recurrent trope, particularly within the representation of ‘victim-heroes’, is a focus on the soldier’s life and/or talents away from the military: the soldier as artist, scholar, lover, and athlete. Through a short history of sport in wartime Japan and six case studies of soldier-athletes – two with ‘inconvenient life histories’, two with ‘usable life histories’, and two (semi-)fictionalized characters – this chapter establishes how sport is used to humanize soldier characters and thereby pull the overall narrative of the film towards a pacifist message of the inhumanity of and suffering during war.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.otherJapan; cinema; soldier-athlete; victim; representation; sporten_US
dc.titleChapter 11 The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific Waren_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003225355-15en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBook946af1ea-13a8-4286-9c8d-99d0b271ef48en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032125978en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032125985en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages21en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Tokyo University


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