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Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Paperback)
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In Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Daisuke Miyao explores the
influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic
visual style, particularly the actualite films made by the Lumiere
brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumiere
films, Miyao contends that more than being documents of everyday
life, they provided a medium for experimenting with aesthetic and
cinematic styles imported from Japan. Miyao further analyzes the
Lumiere films produced in Japan as a negotiation between French
Orientalism and Japanese aesthetics. The Lumiere films, Miyao
shows, are best understood within a media ecology of photography,
painting, and cinema, all indebted to the compositional principles
of Japonisme and the new ideas of kinetic realism it inspired. The
Lumiere brothers and their cinematographers shared the
contemporaneous obsession among Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist artists about how to instantly and physically
capture the movements of living things in the world. Their
engagement with Japonisme, he concludes, constituted a rich and
productive two-way conversation between East and West.
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