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Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925

By Aaron Gerow

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0520254562, 9780520254565
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4419507 bytes)
Edition
First
Pages
344\0
Time added
2018-04-28 09:33:02
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Description

Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. He focuses in particular on how one trend in criticism, the Pure Film Movement, changed not only the way films were made, but also how they were conceived. Looking closely at the work of critics, theorists, intellectuals, benshi artists, educators, police, and censors, Gerow finds that this trend established a way of thinking about cinema that would reign in Japan for much of the twentieth century.

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