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Dialectics without Synthesis
Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame
- 248 pages
- English
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About this book
Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.
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Table of contents
- Subvention
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Realism, Film Theory, Japanese Cinema
- 1.   Naturalism and the Modernization of Japanese Cinema
- 2.   The Machine Aesthetic and Proletarian Realism
- 3.   Literary Adaptation and Textual Realism
- 4.   Documentary Film and Epistemological Realism
- 5.   Neglected Traditions of Bergsonism and Phenomenology
- Epilogue: Hanada Kiyoteru and Postwar Debates
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index