Chinese and Japanese films on the Second World War [electronic resource] / edited by King-fai Tam, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. The Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese film / Timothy Y. Tsu, Sandra Wilson, and King-fai Tam -- 2. A genealogy of anti-Japanese protagonists in Chinese war films, 1949-2011 / Timothy Y. Tsu -- 3. Film, ethnic minorities, and the Anti-Japanese war : an analysis of The Muslim detachment and Jin Yuji / Han Yanli -- 4. The Sino-Japanese war in Ip Man : from miscommunication to poetic combat / Paola Voci -- 5. War, horror and trauma : Japanese atrocities on Chinese screens / Kristof Van Den Troost -- 6. Documentaries as historical text : the emergence of the East River Column on Hong Kong television screens / King-fai Tam -- 7. The theme of salvation in Chinese and Japanese war movies / Siu Leung Li -- 8. Establishing the genre of the revisionist war film : the Shin-Toho body of post-Occupation war films in Japan / Dick Stegewerns -- 9. Wild, wild war : Okamoto Kihachi and the politics of the Desperado films / Hiroshi Kitamura -- 10. Japan's longest days : Toho and the politics of war memory, 1967-1972 / Harald Salomon -- 11. The Himeyuri film cycle : cultural change and remakes of an Okinawan tragedy / Christopher Ames -- 12. What is there to laugh about? University of Laughs as an anti-war film comedy / Beng Choo Lim -- 13. A past to be ashamed of or proud of? Echoes of the fifteen-year war in Japanese film / Marco Del Bene.