[Commlist] new book: Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima

Hannah Holtzman is delighted to announce the publication of the book 
Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to 
Fukushima (SUNY Press), which examines the increasingly reciprocal 
nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on 
nuclear issues.

For more information:

https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Through-a-Nuclear-Lens

https://www.amazon.com/Through-Nuclear-Lens-Hiroshima-Fukushima/dp/1438497849/ 


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Description

The Franco-Japanese coproduction Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is one of 
the most important films for global art cinema and for the French New 
Wave. In Through a Nuclear Lens, Hannah Holtzman examines this film and 
the transnational cycle it has inspired, as well as its legacy after the 
2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. In a study that includes 
formal and theoretical analysis, archival research, and interviews, 
Holtzman shows the emergence of a new kind of nuclear film, one that 
attends to the everyday effects of nuclear disaster and its impact on 
our experience of space and time. The focus on Franco-Japanese exchange 
in cinema since the postwar period reveals a reorientation of the 
primarily aesthetic preoccupations in the tradition of Japonisme to 
center around technological and environmental concerns. The book 
demonstrates how French filmmakers, ever since Hiroshima mon amour, have 
looked to Japan in part to better understand nuclear uncertainty in France.

Hannah Holtzman is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the 
Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo.
Reviews

    "Through a Nuclear Lens connects the fields of French film studies 
with energy humanities, a rapidly emerging field committed to 
understanding and exploring how our dependence on oil and nuclear energy 
shapes societies and affects subjectivities and human narratives. 
Holtzman posits cinema's capacity to function as a critical dialogic 
site, where different cultural anxieties and otherwise nationally 
understood subjectivities can encounter one another, and where the 
boundaries between canonical contributions and lesser-known works 
disappear." — Audrey Evrard, Fordham University

    "The title of this well-written and expertly organized book 
suggests only part of the critical and historical richness it has on 
offer. Holtzman masters a host of interconnected cultural issues to 
provide a deeply nuanced portrait of the nuclear age that usefully 
de-centers the Anglo-American experience." — R. Barton Palmer, editor, 
Quarterly Review of Film and Video


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