The unredeemed nations: the Taiwanese film <italic>KANO</italic> and its trans-border reception.

Taiwanese film <italic>KANO</italic> recounts the passage of a mixed-race baseball team to Japan’s Koshien Tournament during the colonial era of the 1930s. Its release evoked in both Taiwan and Japan critical responses in view of its rosy depiction of colonial modernity. Through analysing the film’s...

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Publicado en:Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 21 - 40
Autores principales: Tang, Shih-che, Fujimaki, Mitsuhiro
Formato: Film/TV Criticism and Review
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2018
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          Tang, Shih-che
          Fujimaki, Mitsuhiro
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          Department of Communication, National Chung Cheng University, Min-Hsiung, Taiwan
          Department of Communication Studies, Ferris University, Yokohama, Japan
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        Kano (Film)
        Boya, Umin
        Imperialism
        Motion pictures
        Baseball teams
        Nationalism
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        Baseball
        Japanese colonialism
        post-national cinema
        Taiwanese film
        the Taiwan/Japan ties
      ab: Taiwanese film <italic>KANO</italic> recounts the passage of a mixed-race baseball team to Japan’s Koshien Tournament during the colonial era of the 1930s. Its release evoked in both Taiwan and Japan critical responses in view of its rosy depiction of colonial modernity. Through analysing the film’s text and reviews in both Taiwan and Japan, we identify <italic>KANO</italic> as a “post-national” cinematic event. Its inviting nostalgic invocation of Japanese colonialism at the civilian level has launched divergent discourses on colonial legacies in the contemporary re/making of national identities, reflecting on the post-colonial socio-cultural conditions facing both Taiwan and Japan. We found that <italic>KANO</italic> in Taiwan instigated a re-examination of the state’s role in crafting the foundational myth of baseball as a “national” sport. Furthermore, the film brought on schemes of othering in which two national others were distinguished to manifest Taiwan subjectivity: Japanese colonialism versus Chinese nationalism. On the other hand, <italic>KANO</italic> in Japan was stripped of its colonial connotation. Its honouring of juvenile devotion to baseball was employed as a psychic introjection of Japanese-ness, which many considered losing in the globalizing social milieu.
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