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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Japan > History > 20th century.
Emotions in motion pictures.
Sex differences in mass media.
Japan > Civilization > 1912-1926.
Japan > Civilization > 1926-1945.
Civilization.
Kanto Earthquake (Japan : 1923) in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Japan.
1900-1999
History.

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