Politics of the visible and the invisible. War images in Japanese and American textbooks.

Autor/inn/en	Conejo Muñoz, Jessica Fernanda; Veloza-Franco, Daniel; Icaza Lizaola, Julieta de
Titel	Politics of the visible and the invisible. War images in Japanese and American textbooks.
Quelle	In: Journal of educational media, memory, and society, 15 (2023) 1, S. 43-61Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustration 1; Literaturangaben S. 61
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2041-6938; 2041-6946
DOI	10.3167/jemms.2023.150103
Schlagwörter	Fotografie; Schulbuch; Geschichtsbild; Geschichtsunterricht; Bild; Japan; USA
Abstract	In this article, we analyze and compare photographic images from some of the most widely circulated Japanese and American high school history textbooks regarding their treatment of the Pacific War. We focus on the visual component of war technology, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the visibility or invisibility of women, especially regarding the comfort women issue. We argue that images in the textbooks are articulated by a dialectic relationship between the visible and the invisible as a political question, thinking about the "off-screen space" as the structural principle of what we see. The textbooks' visual memories about the Pacific War are not only influenced by what is shown but also by what is omitted and virtually depicted in the surrounding media.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2024/1