著者

亘 純吉 Junkichi WATARI 駒沢女子大学人文学部映像コミュニケーション学科

出版者

駒沢女子大学

雑誌

駒沢女子大学研究紀要 (ISSN:13408631)

巻号頁・発行日

no.17, pp.325-360, 2010-12

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The aim of this study is to consider the visual image of analyze "the image of women recorded on move films and slide shows" that have recorded the Movement for the Improvement of Living in the post-World War II Era from the view of cultural anthropology. To summarize : 1. The Movement for the Improvement of Living raised the status and increased the influence of women in the family through the specific experiences of developing products such as the improved Kamado (a cooking stove), at the same time had them aware of the power of associated movements united by the new values. 2. The films and slides shows used in the Movement for the Improvement of Living as well as the films that recorded the movement are both produced under the ideology of the modern western rationalism. The movement is an expression of the paradigm that "social participation" and "self-discovery" relate strongly to each other. 3. The Movement for Improvement of Living had not turned its attention to the socio-political structure that had produced poverty in farm and mountain villages. The movement failed to recognize the situation that the villages were marginalized and trapped in poverty, and it did not involve the ideological liberation toward the social reform within itself. Therefore, the movement could not bear a possibility to become a popular social movement that could change the situation of the villages.