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A new history of Japanese cinema, a century of narrative film, Isolde Standish

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A new history of Japanese cinema, a century of narrative film, Isolde Standish

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Filmography: pages 365-386Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-395) and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A new history of Japanese cinema

Nature of contents

filmographiesdictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

741691379

Responsibility statement

Isolde Standish

Sub title

a century of narrative film

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

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

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