A new history of Japanese cinema : a century of narrative film /

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Author / Creator:Standish, Isolde.
Imprint:New York : Continuum, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (414 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11262646
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ISBN:9781441161543
1441161546
1283206625
9781283206624
9781628929195
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0826417906
9780826417909
0826417094
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Notes:Filmography: pages 365-386.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-395) and index.
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Summary:In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanese film. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation. Adopting a thematic, exploratory approach, Standish links the concept of Japanese cinema as a system of communication with some of the central discourses of the twentieth century: modernism, nationalism, humanism, resistance, and gender. After an introduction outlining the earliest years of cinema in Japan, Standish demonstrates cinema's.
Other form:Print version: Standish, Isolde. New history of Japanese cinema. New York : Continuum, 2006 0826417906
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One-Cinema, Modernity and the Shôchiku Tokyo Studios
  • Chapter Two-Cinema and Nationalism
  • Chapter Three-Cinema and the State
  • Chapter Four-Cinema and Humanism
  • Chapter Five-Cinema and Transgression
  • Chapter Six-Genres and Gender Reflections.