Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
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Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
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Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema

About this book

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 actualitÊ films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière 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 Lumière films produced in Japan as a negotiation between French Orientalism and Japanese aesthetics. The Lumière 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 Lumière 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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Information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781478009429
9781478008538
eBook ISBN
9781478008873
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Japanese History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. The À Travers Cinema: Japonisme and the Lumière Brothers’ Films
  6. 2. Japonisme and Nativized Orientalism: The Lumière Brothers’ “Japanese Films”
  7. 3. Japonisme and Internalized Orientalism: Cinematographer Shibata Tsunekichi and the Birth of Cinema in Japan
  8. Epilogue: Japonisme and the Birth of a Female Star in Hollywood and in Japan
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index

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