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A New History of Japanese Cinema (Paperback)
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A New History of Japanese Cinema (Paperback)
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In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the
historical development of Japanese film. She details an industry
and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of
traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation.
Adopting a thematic, exploratory approach, Standish links the
concept of Japanese cinema as a system of communication with some
of the central discourses of the twentieth century: modernism,
nationalism, humanism, resistance, and gender. After an
introduction outlining the earliest years of cinema in Japan,
Standish demonstrates cinema's symbolic position in Japanese
society in the 1930s - as both a metaphor and a motor of modernity.
Moving into the late thirties and early forties, Standish analyses
cinema's relationship with the state-focusing in particular on the
war and occupation periods. The book's coverage of the
post-occupation period looks at ""romance"" films in particular.
Avant-garde directors came to the fore during the 1960s and early
seventies, and their work is discussed in depth. The book concludes
with an investigation of genre and gender in mainstream films of
recent years. In grappling with Japanese film history and
criticism, most western commentators have concentrated on offering
interpretations of what have come to be considered ""classic""
films. A New History of Japanese Cinema takes a genuinely
innovative approach to the subject, and should prove an essential
resource for many years to come.
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