Dark Modernity: East-West Perspectives (Hardcover)

Introduction

Yoichiro Miyamoto (Open University of Japan)
Kinds of Noir: Transnational Realism in Postwar America, Japan and Europe

Hans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)
The Dark City of Modernity: From “The Killers” to the City noir

Eisuke Kawada (Kanazawa University)
The Stylistic Aesthetic of Disfiguration: The Style of Modernity in Ernest Hemingway’s “The
Snows of Kilimanjaro”

Astrid Boger (University of Hamburg)
Strange Revelations: Re-encountering Diane Arbus’s Photographic Work

Tamara Radak (University of Vienna)
“Maybe the war will be over”: Alternative Futures and Equivocal Closure in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms)

Kodai Abe (University of Tsukuba)
Reading Woolfe Against Trauma: Shell Shock and Gender in Mrs. Dalloway

Bunei Kohara (Komatsu University)
Interopticality and the Atomic Phantom: Jaws, Godzilla, and America’s Legacy of War

Hans-Peter Rodenberg (University of Hamburg)
The Terrible Modernity of War: A Bricolage of Artistic Responses in Japan and America