Research week 1 part 2

Examples:

In This Corner of the World (2016)
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live. (Katabuchi, 2017)

Victory Through Air Power(1943)
An animated documentary promoting of the soundness of strategic aerial bombing in World War II. (Algar and Geronimi, 2017)

Momotaro no umiwashi (1943)

Featuring the "Peach Boy", character of Japanese folklore, the film is aimed at children, telling the story of a naval unit consisting of the human Momotaro and several animal species representing the Far Eastern races fighting together for a common goal. In a dramatization of the attack on Pearl Harbor, this force attacks the demons at the island of Onigashima (representing the Americans and British demonized in Japanese propaganda), and the film also utilizes actual footage of the Pearl Harbor attack.(Seo, 2017)

Statements:

Propaganda films gives a different extend of understanding of audience nowadays to the historical events compare to the audience at the time.

Animations tend to achieve the purpose of vilifying the character with the impact of the soundtrack and other elements affecting the atmosphere.

Characteristic is highly affected by the cultural background of the director.

Contemporary films aimed at the society conveys different messages, to propaganda films aimed at the soldiers. It serves a soothing purpose and usually anti-war thought.

Relevant quotes:

"Arguably even more influential were the various documentary filmmakers who emerged after the Second World War, who forged an 'observational' aesthetic" (Ward, 2012, p4)

Leiji Matsumoto's film, the scene where American fighter jets sink the Yamato, is accompanied by a soundtrack identified with the Gamilon aliens. "the American enemy becomes an alien of no cultural affiliation, so that they can be portrayed without directly generating anti-American sentiments"(Ataria, Gurevitz, Pedaya and Neria, 2016, p108)

"constitute a form of cultural therapy in which the viewers are confronted over and over again with loss and defeat, but which offer a soothing and comforting end."(Ataria, Gurevitz, Pedaya and Neria, 2016, p108)

"the reference has often been to the same monumental, national events, such as World War II, as if Japan was caught in the never-ending cycle of victimhood and traumatic recovery." (Yoshimoto, Tsai and Choi, 2010, p244)

Bibliography:
Katabuchi, S. (2017). In This Corner of the World (2016). [online] IMDb. Available at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4769824/ [Accessed 11 Oct. 2017].

Algar, J. and Geronimi, C. (2017). Victory Through Air Power (1943). [online] IMDb. Available at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036497/ [Accessed 11 Oct. 2017].

Seo, M. (2017). Momotarô's Sea Eagles (1943). [online] IMDb. Available at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420783/ [Accessed 11 Oct. 2017].

Ward, P. (2012). Documentary: The Margins of Reality. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ataria, Y., Gurevitz, D., Pedaya, H. and Neria, Y. (2016). Interdisciplinary handbook of trauma and culture. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Yoshimoto, M., Tsai, E. and Choi, J. (2010). Television, Japan, and globalization. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan.