Date of Award
Spring 2020
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Art
First Advisor
Lauren Steimer
Abstract
This paper labors to expound the link between the socially mediated “trauma process,” or the creation of collective trauma through social discourse, and the proposed moniker of “crisis cinema” that has often been deployed by media scholars with no clear parameters. This paper, then, endeavors to evince the trauma process’ relevance to crises and disasters, explicitly define a paradigm by which crisis cinema can be understood, and subsequently utilized by a larger patronage, and showcase the pair’s reliance on one another. This is approached through the locus of the March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and a selection of Japanese films that followed therein.
Rights
© 2020, Matthew C Hill
Recommended Citation
Hill, M. C.(2020). Japan’s 2D Trauma Culture: Defining Crisis Cinema in Post-3/11 Japan. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5723