| Project/Area Number |
26770077
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Art at large
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| Research Institution | International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAURA Hiroyuki 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 助教 (20707707)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | 映画 / テレビ / ハンセン病 / 受容 / 差別 / 表象 / 『あん』 / 「らい予防法」 / 日本映画 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I examine how movies, television, and other mass media have historically dealt with the issue of Hansen’s disease (leprosy). Social prejudice against its patients still exists.
For specific discussion I take up the Japanese film titled An (Sweet Bean), released in 2015, and, comparing it with other leprosy-related films made earlier, such as Suna no utsuwa (1974; The Castle of Sand) and examine the differences in the way the malaise is depicted. For example, referring to the way the former portrays that a young woman born after 1996, when the 1953 Leprosy Prevention Law was abolished, and she learns about Hansen’s disease, I point out the educational aspect of the film that keeps later generations in mind.
I also look at how patients with Hansen’s disease have responded to representations of themselves in the mass media.
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