Description: Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first book dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese cinema.
Review Quotes: Ranging from Godzilla to Evangelion, Miyazaki Hayao to Kore-eda Hirokazu, and blockbuster disaster movies to somber documentaries and dreamy melodramas, Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema is a diverse, thought-provoking, and endlessly fascinating exploration of how environmental catastrophes have haunted, incited, and inspired Japan's filmmakers and animators. Theoretically sophisticated but thoroughly accessible, this compact volume is a rich resource for scholars, a perfect text for use in film, environmental, and Japanese studies classrooms, and an eye-opening read for all fans of Japanese cinema and popular culture.--William M. Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind and Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization