Dark Modernity

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Kinds of Noir: Transnational Realism in Postwar America, Europe and Japan (Yoichiro Miyamoto)
• Kurosawa Noir
• Transnational Noir
• Modernity as a network
• The summer of noir
• Noir Americanization
• Bibliography
• The Dark City of Modernity: From “The Killers” to the City noir (Hans-Peter Rodenberg)
• The changing image of urbanity
• Narrating the Dark City - the urban newspaper hack
• The new popular heroes of the silver screen
• The city, a space of psychopaths
• Bibliography
• The Stylistic Aesthetic of Disfiguration: The Style of Modernity in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Eisuke Kawada)
• I. The challenge of valorizing “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
• Religious Quality
• Exclusiveness of the symbolic interpretation
• Ignorance of Hemingway’s experiment in style
• II. The necessity of a stylistic analysis
• III. Disfiguration – The style and its aesthetics of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
• Verticality and horizontality: literary space in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
• Disfiguration and indeterminacy as effects of modernity
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Strange Revelations: Re-encountering Diane Arbus’s Photographic Work (Astrid Böger)
• Bibliography
• “Maybe the war will be over”: Alternative Futures and Equivocal Closure in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (Tamara Radak)
• Bibliography
• Reading Woolf Against Trauma: Shell Shock and Gender in Mrs. Dalloway (Kodai Abe)
• From Trauma to Shell Shock
• Septimus and Shell Shock
• Clarissa and Shell Shock
• Epiphany as a Modernist-Feminist Violation
• Bibliography
• Interopticality and the Atomic Phantom: Jaws, Godzilla, and America’s Legacy of War (Bunei Kohara)
• The Premise: Image as Immediate Given
• Uncharted Depths: Unveiling Watergate and the Vietnam War as Hidden Contexts
• Engaging the Surface: Visual Layers and Literal Meanings in Focus
• From Surface to Surface: Godzilla (1954) vs. Jaws (1975)
• Interopticality
• Conclusion: Interopticality and a New Frontier of Jaws Analysis
• 1. Opening sequence
• 2. Oxygen Destroyer and Hooper’s oxygen tank
• 3. The Monster’s Descent to the Sea Floor
• 4. Brody Aiming at the Shark from a Prone Position
• Bibliography
• The Terrible Modernity of War: A Bricolage of Artistic Responses in Japan and America (Hans-Peter Rodenberg)
• Prelude: Francisco Goya’s War as Disaster
• 1. Yoshitoshi Tsukioka’s haunted warriors
• 2. Ambrose Bierce’s American Civil War
• 3. Saitō Sanki’s unpatriotic “newsreel” haiku
• 4. Miyamoto Saburō’s conflicting discourses
• 5. Post-modernist aftermath: Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
• Bibliography
• Contributors

Yoichiro Miyamoto and Hans-Peter Rodenberg (eds.)

Dark Modernity

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Contents

List of Figures