“Disarmed”: Disability, Trauma, and Emasculation in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Disability, especially when war-related, is dangerous ground for entertainment films. Depictions of battle-scarred living bodies are necessarily political, since they cannot avoid commenting on the conflict of which they are a stark visual reminder. Yet depictions are politically multivalent: seeing...
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MDPI AG
2018-03-01
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/7/1/10 |