Japanese Cinema post Fukushima

  • New Godzilla, Old Trauma? – Japanese Cinema post Fukushima
    A lecture by Chantal Bertalanffy, M.A.
  • Thursday, May 31, 19:30 Mousonturm Studio 1
  • Duration: approx. 1,5 hours
  • Lecture in English
  • Free admission

Seven years after Japan was struck by the tsunami and nuclear disaster that followed the earthquake of March 11, 2011, the trauma that this catastrophe caused seems to have been overcome. Chantal Bertalanffy illustrates how this return to normalcy was possible despite considerable civil protest, and what role Japanese cinema played in this.

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japanologie.uni-frankfurt.de

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