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Disaster and Salvation in the Japanese Periphery. “The Rural” in Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no na wa (Your Name)

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dc.creatorThelen, Timo
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-08T10:34:16Z
dc.date.available2019-04-08T10:34:16Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstract“Your Name” (Kimi no na wa) became the most popular movie of 2016 in Japan and also attracted the attention of anime movie fans worldwide. The body swap story of a rural shrine maiden and a metropolitan high school boy deals with their struggle to save a rural town and its inhabitants from a crashing comet. I argue that “Your Name” and its overwhelming success should be interpreted from a sociocultural perspective, especially in consideration of the Tohoku triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown) of March 2011. The movie’s alternate storyline creates a simulation that strongly alludes to real events, but in which the national tragedy is ultimately prevented. This, in turn, aims at achieving an emotional catharsis for the Japanese viewers who remember their own collective trauma after facing the sudden and devastating catastrophe of 3/11.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3697
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ffk-journal.de/?journal=ffk-journal&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=79&path%5B%5D=74
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4450
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAvinus
dc.publisher.placeHamburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2512-8086
dc.relation.ispartofseriesffk Journal
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectFilmanalysede
dc.subjectNaturkatastrophede
dc.subjectGeschichtede
dc.subjectStadtde
dc.subjectNaturde
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personMakoto Shinkai
dc.subject.workYOUR NAME. - GESTERN, HEUTE UND FÜR IMMER
dc.titleDisaster and Salvation in the Japanese Periphery. “The Rural” in Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no na wa (Your Name)en
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationThelen, Timo (2019): Disaster and Salvation in the Japanese Periphery. “The Rural” in Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no na wa (Your Name). In: ffk Journal (4), 215–230. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3697.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:36:04
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://www.ffk-journal.de/?journal=ffk-journal&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=79&path%5B%5D=74
local.source.epage230
local.source.issue4
local.source.spage215
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/139372415
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21697406
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335080

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