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What Is Japanese Cinema? : A History by Yomota Inuhiko (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN-100231191634
ISBN-139780231191630
eBay Product ID (ePID)3038262449
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
Publication NameWhat Is Japanese Cinema? : a History
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectAsia / Japan, Asian / Japanese, Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
AuthorYomota Inuhiko
Subject AreaArt, Performing Arts, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-054005
ReviewsA famously rambunctious critic, Inuhiko Yomota proves to be an even better pedagogue. He deftly organizes Japan's kaleidoscopic genres and film fashions into a totality you can grasp. Auteurs and stars sparkle above an omnivorous industry that metabolized traditional theater, popular manga, and Hollywood techniques into unmistakably Japanese forms. A swift, truly satisfying summary, What Is Japanese Cinema? is also just as vibrant and searching as its title, because its author is clearly in the thrall of his marvelous subject., No living scholar-critic of Japanese movies possesses Yomota Inuhiko's encyclopedic range and sheer passion for film. What Is Japanese Cinema? is a tour de force of filmic history: a concise and spirited account of how Japanese film came to be, illuminating carryovers from native theatrical traditions and the tensions lining the political history of modern East Asia. That Japanese cinema has all along been local, and--in its imperial ambitions, aesthetic power, or moral force--global in its reach, is a matter that this insightful book brings remarkably to light., A compact, breezy, and stimulating summary of Japanese film history. . . . Yomota's book offers something largely absent from English-language writing about Japanese cinema: a Japanese perspective., What Is Japanese Cinema? goes beyond the auteurist criticism that tells a history of cinema as a compilation of masterpieces. Instead, the work locates cinema in the specific contexts of cultural history as well as technological history. Yomota Inuhiko's knowledge of and attentiveness to film theories and histories is incredible.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Original LanguageJapanese
Dewey Decimal791.430952
Table Of ContentNote on Names and Film Titles Preface to the English Translation Introduction 1. Motion Pictures: 1896-1918 2. The Rise of Silent Film: 1917-1930 3. The First Golden Age: 1927-1940 4. Japanese Cinema During Wartime 5. Film Production in the Colonies and Occupied Lands 6. Japanese Cinema Under American Occupation: 1945-1952 7. Toward a Second Golden Age: 1952-1960 8. Upheaval Amidst Steady Decline: 1961-1970 9. Decline and Torpor: 1971-1980 10. The Collapse of the Studio System: 1981-1990 11. The Indies Start to Flourish: 1991-2000 12. Within a Production Bubble: 2001-2011 Notes Index
SynopsisWhat might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan's modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form. He covers the history of Japanese film from the silent era to the rise of J-Horror in its historical, technological, and global contexts. Yomota shows how Japanese film has been shaped by traditonal art forms such as kabuki theater as well as foreign influences spanning Hollywood and Italian neorealism. Along the way, he considers the first golden age of Japanese film; colonial filmmaking in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan; the impact of World War II and the U.S. occupation; the Japanese film industry's rise to international prominence during the 1950s and 1960s; and the challenges and technological shifts of recent decades. Alongside a larger thematic discussion of what defines and characterizes Japanese film, Yomota provides insightful readings of canonical directors including Kurosawa, Ozu, Suzuki, and Miyazaki as well as genre movies, documentaries, indie film, and pornography. An incisive and opinionated history, What Is Japanese Cinema? is essential reading for admirers and students of Japan's contributions to the world of film., What Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan's modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form.
LC Classification NumberPN1993.5.J3N542513
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