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YOUNG PINES
ABBEY MEAKER
YOUNG PINES Young Pines responds to the way in which cultural and political tensions of postwar Japan were expressed via sexual representations in postwar cinema. Japanese Shunga engravings created between the 1700s and 1800s - the most famous being Katsushika Hokusai’s image of a woman sexually devoured by father and son octopuses - express a similar tension. Depictions of sexuality in Japan, beginning with the Shungas, are often violent, sometimes satirical, and frequently provocatively inclusive of animals. These visual studies aim to address my curiosities regarding the tradition of Japanese erotica and to furnish a comparison between the sexuality expressed in Japanese cinema of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, compared with the relatively restrained sexual representations created in American cinema of the same era.