Space and the Memories of Violence

Abstract

"This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen."--Publisher's description. The URA, politics and the aesthetics of memory -- The Japanese New Left and the URA -- A spectacle of sex, violence and madness -- Horror, sympathy and empathy -- The image, seeing and the siege -- Conclusion.