A New History of Japanese Cinema
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A New History of Japanese Cinema

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A New History of Japanese Cinema

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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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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780826417909
eBook ISBN
9781441161543
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism
132
A 
New
History
of
Japanese
Cinema
ter 
of 
the
youngest
son
with
the
freedom
offered
by 
the
meritocratic 
nature
of
colonial 
society.
In
films
produced
in 
the
post-1939
Film
Law
period,
the
absence
of
foreigners,
and
where 
depicted, 
their 
portrayal
by
Japanese 
actors,
has 
led
scholars
to
de-emphasize
the
unifying
role
of 
the
other
in 
fictional 
ac-
counts
of 
the
interracial 
community
of
nation-state
and
empire. 
However,
in
'spy
films', 
the
depiction
of
themes
of
sexual 
predation
and
opulent
lifestyles,
during
a
period
of
extreme 
hardship
and
austerity, 
implies 
cul-
tural 
decadence 
that 
became 
symptomatic
of 
the
West 
against 
which 
Japa-
nese 
national 
purity
was
defined.
Within
the
triangular 
structure
of 
the
'spy
film', 
the
metaphor
of 
the
inclusiveness
of 
the
'family
nation-state'
en-
compasses 
colonial 
subjects
and
structures
the
American 
characters
as 
the
threatening 
other
by
inverting 
established 
Hollywood 
conventions.
The
fol-
lowing 
chapter,
from
the
context
of 
a
state-sponsored 
system
of 
film
pro-
duction 
(the
'national
policy'
film 
and 
films
produced 
under
the
auspices
of
occupation 
policy), 
will 
consider 
some
of 
the
heterogeneous 
elements
of
cinema 
style
and
practice.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface and Acknowledgments
  3. Notes on Translation
  4. Introduction: Towards a Politics of Cinema
  5. 1 Cinema, Modernity and the Shochiku Tokyo Studios
  6. 2 Cinema, Nationalism and Empire
  7. 3 Cinema and the State
  8. 4 Cinema and Humanism
  9. 5 Cinema and Transgression
  10. 6 Genres and Gender
  11. Reflections
  12. Notes
  13. Select Filmography
  14. Select Bibliography
  15. Index

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