Preface to “Challenges of Space Anthropology”
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This study examines the characteristics of the Japanese imagination of outer space inconjunction with its representations in television and cinema during the late 1960s.Cinema and television have offered the Japanese many films and television programs inthe form of dramas, news programs, documentaries, and variety shows on the topics ofspace, the space race, space flight, and astronauts. An historic event was the livebroadcast of Apollo 11’s moon landing on August 20, 1969. These programs constructedand changed Japanese viewers’ perception and imagination of outer space. Applying themethods of film studies, this study analyzes these television programs and related filmswith the aim of historicizing one aspect of the Japanese imagination of space.
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