Updates the story of Japanese cinema for the 21st century. This
book looks at some of the key genres in Japanese cinema since 1997.
In several cases it considers in detail the ways in which
individual films have both drawn and departed from those films that
have comprised the key works and trends in these generic
categories, and in others it looks at some significant recent
developments that have little real precedence in filmmaking in
Japan. Through close textual analysis of representative films, the
study seeks to elucidate the prevalence of repetition and variation
in contemporary Japanese genre cinema, to understand some of the
reasons behind this paradigm, and analyse where relevant how and to
what extent new modes or generic groups fit into the schema. In so
doing it seeks for the first time in English language discourse to
offer an academic appreciation and overview of popular Japanese of
the last two decades. It considers and analyses numerous films and
filmmakers that have yet to feature predominantly in western
discourse on Japanese cinema; the first study of the significant
developments in Japanese genre filmmaking since the turn of the new
millennium; analyses in detail the dialogue that can be seen
between new Japanese cinema and the significant trends and
practices of past generations; includes for the first time in
western discourse a discussion of the modern state of the Japanese
documentary feature, based on interviews with some of its leading
practitioners and also includes a review of Japanese language
criticism and a consideration of how the country's cinema has been
perceived within Japan.
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