A companion to Japanese cinema. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Desser.
• Editors: Desser, David
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Publication Date: 2022
• Copyright Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 692 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 791.430952; Motion pictures -- Japan -- History; Cinéma -- Japon -- Histoire; Motion pictures; Japan; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118955352; 1118955358; 9781118955338; 1118955331; 9781118955345
• Related ISBNs: 111895534X; 9781118955321; 9781119692768
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2022).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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