Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb

David Deamer establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze''s Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, exploring how Japanese films responded to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the early days of occupation political censorship to the social and cultural freedoms of the 1960s and beyond, the book examines how images of the nuclear event appear in post-w...