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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/embryo-hunts-public-eugenics-a
 tomic-bomb-and-politics-visibility-japanese-film-culture-1957/
SUMMARY:The Embryo Hunts in Public: Eugenics\, the Atomic Bomb\, and the Po
 litics of Visibility in Japanese Film Culture\, 1957-1966
DESCRIPTION:\n	Kinoshita Chika (Associate Professor\, Graduate School of Hu
 man and Environmental Studies\, Kyoto University\; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 
 2019-20)\n	Chair/discussant: Alexander Zahlten (Associate Professor of Ea
 st Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n\n	Co-sponsore
 d by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n\n	In the mid 1960s\,
  fetal images emerged in the limelight in film and visual culture across n
 ational boundaries\, from Lennart Nilsson’s photo essay “Drama of Life
  Before Birth” (LIFE\, April 30\, 1965) to the opening roll of Wakamatsu
  Kōji’s exploitation classic The Embryo Hunts in Secret (胎児が密
 猟する時\, 1966) and Stanley Kubrick’s famous Star Child at the clos
 e of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Engaging in dialogue with feminist crit
 ique of those fetal images\, this presentation sheds new light on the cine
 matic formation of the fetal subject and its concomitant transformation of
  the maternal body into its environment in Japan. Specifically\, I place t
 hem within the historical and geopolitical context of the late 1950s by an
 alyzing Kamei Fumio’s anti-nuclear documentary The World in Fear (世界
 は恐怖する 1957) as a complex and highly contentious mélange of euge
 nic thoughts\, the discourse on motherhood\, the Cold War politics\, and m
 ontage aesthetics.  
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