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The Attractive Empire - Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan (Paperback)
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The Attractive Empire - Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan (Paperback)
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"Because imperialism has had such an appalling ideological
reputation, we've lost sight of its excitement, the breathless
anticipation of adventures in far-off lands. The Attractive Empire
is a tour de force of enthralling historical scholarship that puts
the appeal, and seductions, of imperialism on display, without
underestimating its ugly consequences. Like its chosen subject, the
book covers an astonishing array of texts, events, people, and
issues. The clarity and vividness of the writing make it work
effortlessly. Baskett's organizational skills, narrative, and
rhetoric deftly orchestrate a complex subject." --Darrell William
Davis, University of New South Wales "Michael Baskett removes
imperial Japanese film from its solitary confinement and
commandingly analyzes how it functioned internationally. He commits
a depth of research rarely found in English-language studies of
Japanese cinema, and his mastery of the primary and secondary
sources from beyond Japan's borders distinctly set his book apart
from previous scholarship on the subject. Not only is this a work
that historians and film scholars will appreciate but also one that
I look forward to assigning to undergraduates." --Barak Kushner,
Cambridge University Japanese film crews were shooting
feature-length movies in China nearly three decades before Akira
Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) reputedly put Japan on the international
film map. Although few would readily associate Japan's film
industry with either imperialism or the domination of world
markets, the country's film culture developed in lock step with its
empire, which, at its peak in 1943, included territories from the
Aleutians to Australia and from Midway Island to India. With each
military victory, Japanese film culture's sphere of influence
expanded deeper into Asia, first clashing with and ultimately
replacing Hollywood as the main source of news, education, and
entertainment for millions. The Attractive Empire is the first
comprehensive examination of the attitudes, ideals, and myths of
Japanese imperialism as represented in its film culture. In this
stimulating new study, Michael Baskett traces the development of
Japanese film culture from its unapologetically colonial roots in
Taiwan and Korea to less obvious manifestations of empire such as
the semicolonial markets of Manchuria and Shanghai and occupied
territories in Southeast Asia. Drawing on a wide range of
previously untapped primary sources from public and private
archives across Asia, Europe, and the United States, Baskett
provides close readings of individual films and trenchant analyses
of Japanese assumptions about Asian ethnic and cultural
differences. Finally, he highlights the place of empire in the
struggle at legislative, distribution, and exhibition levels to
wrest the "hearts and minds" of Asian film audiences from Hollywood
in the 1930s as well as in Japan's attempts to maintain that
hegemony during its alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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