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

The Resource A new history of Japanese cinema : a century of narrative film

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

Title remainder

a century of narrative film

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Isolde Standish

Language

eng

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

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digitized

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

791.430952

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1993.5.J3

LC item number

S72 2006eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography
filmographies

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