著者

河島 基弘 Kawashima Motohiro

出版者

群馬大学社会情報学部

雑誌

群馬大学社会情報学部研究論集 (ISSN:13468812)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.35-48, 2011-03-31

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In this article I examine the method and content of the Academy-Award-winning Americandocumentary film"The Cove", the theme of which is to expose to the public the inhumanity ofdolphin hunting conducted in Taiji, Japan from the viewpoint of an anti-dolphin-hunting cam-paigner. After describing the synopsis of the film, I call in question the film's shooting method.The questions to ask are:how much of a reconstruction of the scene is peumissible in thedocumentary film?; is it acceptable to take the sneak shots of the subjects without theirpermission? Then I move on to the analysis of the content of the film. The questions to askhere are:is it a manifestation of cultural imperialism when someone insists that dolphins arespecial creatures and then obliges other culture to take the same position?; is 辻true that''TheCove'"is anti-Japan? In this article I work on to answer these questions.