Life in the Shadow of a Nuclear Power Plant (Fukushima – Ten Years Later)

Krzysztof Loska

krzysztof.loska@uj.edu.pl
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4078-798X

Abstract

The article discusses the films addressing the effects of radioactive contamination that occurred in March 2011 as a result of an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Starting from the concept of disaster as perceived by French philosophers – Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy – the author focuses on how this topic has been presented in Japanese documentaries and feature films, whose makers tried to deal with the unimaginable, confronted various ethical dilemmas, and reflected on the issue of human responsibility for the surrounding world and natural disasters caused by our activities.


Keywords:

Fukushima disaster, radioactive contamination, environment

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Published
2021-08-17

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Loska, K. (2021) “Life in the Shadow of a Nuclear Power Plant (Fukushima – Ten Years Later) ”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (114), pp. 145–163. doi: 10.36744/kf.748.

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Krzysztof Loska 
krzysztof.loska@uj.edu.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4078-798X

Professor of Human Sciences in the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is the vice-president of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies and the member of Editorial Advisory Board of the bi-monthly Ekrany. He has authored 150 papers and dissertations on media, popular culture, film history and Japanese cinema, published in various journals (Kwartalnik Filmowy, Studia Filmoznawcze, Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Ekrany, Kultura Współczesna, Ethos) and edited volumes. He has published twelve books (in Polish), e.g. Dziedzictwo McLuhana – między nowoczesnością a ponowoczesnością [McLuhan’s Legacy: Between Modernity and Postmodernity] (2001), Poetyka filmu japońskiego [Poetics of Japanese Cinema] (2009), Kenji Mizoguchi i wyobraźnia melodramatyczna [Kenji Mizoguchi and the Melodramatic Imagination] (2012), Nowy film japoński [New Japanese Cinema] (2013), Mistrzowie kina japońskiego [Masters of Japanese Film] (2015) and Postkolonialna Europa. Etnoobrazy współczesnego kina [Postcolonial Europe: Ethnoscapes of Contemporary Cinema] (2016).



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