Powers of the real : cinema, gender, and emotion in interwar Japan /

"Examines the rise of cinema as a mass medium in Japan after the Great Kanto Earthquake, connecting the disaster to the new salience of emotion in public discourse, popular culture, and film and tracing how new forms of intimacy and emotion shaped by mass media became a major focus of cinematic...

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Main Author: Lewis, Diane Wei, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 424.
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Summary:"Examines the rise of cinema as a mass medium in Japan after the Great Kanto Earthquake, connecting the disaster to the new salience of emotion in public discourse, popular culture, and film and tracing how new forms of intimacy and emotion shaped by mass media became a major focus of cinematic discourse in the 1920s"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674241152
0674241150
9780674241169
0674241169