Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue.Taylor, Jeremy E. (ed.) (2021). Bloomsbury Academic. 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-3501-4220-6

As the Introduction observes, though the visual elements of occupations can sometimes be the most apparent, comparative scholarly analyses of the topic remain rare.Part of a trilogy (the other volumes deal with spatial and sonic aspects), the book's eleven chapters are flanked by Jeremy E. Taylor's Introduction and summarising Epilogue.Part I centres on the immediate post-1945 context.Alexey Tikhomirov examines the institutional and ideological impact of the visual regime in East German public spaces.Emily Oliver's contribution contextualises the 1949 unrest in British-controlled West Berlin caused by a screening of David Lean's film Oliver Twist and its depiction of Fagin.Jennifer Coates looks at cinema in early postwar Japan through a gendered lens, both in terms of the whole cinemagoing experience for women and girls as well as the films shown.