A companion to Japanese cinema /
"Here is the cliché, the received wisdom: Kurosawa Akira's Rashomon was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. That it won the festival's grand prize seems in retrospect to be a given: it is one of the finest and most important films ever made, its in...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2022.
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| Series: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas.
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Table of Contents:
- Kyoto : The Hollywood of Japan / Diane Lewis
- The pure film movement and modern Japanese film style / Laura Lee
- Shiraito redux : text, body, desire from Kyoka to Mizoguchi / Ayaoko Saito
- The adventures of Uchida Tomu / Daisuke Miyao
- Yoshimura Kozaburo and the working woman in the old capital / Alexander Jacoby
- Calico-world in rainbow colors : the aesthetics of gender in 1950s Toei Jidaigeki / Junko Yamazaki
- Silverscreen dreamboats and the polyvocal address / Earl Jackson
- Mad, bad and beautiful : revisiting Kurosawa's women / Dolores Martinez
- Biographies of loss : the cinematic melancholy of Kawase Naomi / Erin Schoneveld
- Shaping the anime industry : second generation pioneers and the emergence of the studio system / Laura Montero-Plata and Marie Pruvost-Delaspre
- Shapeshifting in anime : form and meaning / Richard J. Leskosky
- Ainu in documentary films : promiscuous iconography and the absent image / Marcos P. Centeno-Martín
- Modernity in film exhibition : the rise of modern movie theaters in Tokyo, 1920s-1930s / Chie Niita
- Female stardom and national identity in postwar Japan / Jennifer Coates
- Wild, sexy and funny : Toei does pink / Laura Treglia
- Behind the voice that brought peace : the emperor as hero in The Emperor in August / Griseldis Kirsch
- Queer time in summer vacation 1999 / Nina Cornyetz
- Horror old and new : Nakata Hideo's Ringu (1998) between J-horror and Hibakusha cinema / Olga Solovieva
- Youth, trauma, and contemporary Japanese cinema / Jay McRoy
- 'Female director' : discourses and practices in contemporary Japan / Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández and Irene González-López
- The dying art of Japanese cinema / Kirsten Cather
- Before media mix : the electric ecology / Zahlten, Alexander
- Gosho and the gagman : scriptwriting at the time of the talkie crisis in 1930s Japan / Lauri Kitsnik
- Inventing television through film : Japanese cinema and TV, 1953-1963 / Aaron Gerow
- 'Scope and the city : reframing a modern metropolis / Jasper Sharp
- Bodies in motion : Japanese film of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics era between mass culture, media, and memory / Ryan Cook
- Adaptation as Cinematic Translation : Murakami Haruki and Ichikawa Jun's Tony Takitani / Mika Ko
- Blockbusters in Japan : hit film culture and the Rise of Fuji Television as commercial film studio / Rayna Denison
- Hani Susumu, nouvelle vague in Japan and processive cinema / Takuya Tsunoda
- The cultural turn in post-3.11 documentary : Kamanaka Hitomi's accented documentary / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.