The Politics of Mourning of the War Dead in the 1970s and 1980s in Japan:Creation and Reception of the Works and Activities on Mutchan’s Tragedy

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  • 1970-80年代の日本映画における戦没者の喪をめぐる政治学－「ムッちゃん」悲話を手がかりとして－
  • 1970-80ネンダイ ノ ニホン エイガ ニ オケル センボツシャ ノ モ オ メグル セイジガク : 「 ムッ チャン 」 ヒワ オ テガカリ ト シテ
  • 1970-80年代の日本映画における戦没者の喪をめぐる政治学－「ムッちゃん」悲話を手がかりとして－

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In the 1970s and 1980s, anti-war films which embraced the narrative of children’s grief and loss because of World War II were distributed for non-theatrical screenings called the Parental Cinema. Focusing on the strong emotional reactions of the audience and their grief in social space, this paper covers the creation and reception of the works on the tragedy of Mutchan, a girl who was believed to have been abandoned and died in an air raid shelter after the war and explores the discourse and politics of the mourning of the war dead during this period. By referring to the notion of reparation discussed by Melanie Klein and Freud/Judith Butler’s thought on the sense of guilt, this study reveals the psychic mechanism of opposing discourse of mourning: national mourning through the representation of children and prohibition of mourning by the internalization of blame on war crimes as moral issues. The possibility of different mourning practices and expressions from the story of Mutchan is further examined.

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