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Tanaka Kinuyo

Author : Irene Gonzalez-Lopez
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474409704

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Explores the experiences spectators have when they watch a film collectively in a cinema.

A New History of Japanese Cinema

Author : Isolde Standish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441161543

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A New History of Japanese Cinema by Isolde Standish Pdf

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.

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

Author : ドナルドリッチー
Publisher : Kodansha International
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 4770029950

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A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by ドナルドリッチー Pdf

Richie offers movie buffs and serious film students a lively, comprehensive overview of Japanese cinema from the end of the 19th century to the present. Updated DVD and VHS listings feature new releases, classic films, and reviews.

Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan

Author : William D. Hoover
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538111567

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Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan by William D. Hoover Pdf

Japan is a mix of the old and the new, traditional and modern, and old fashion and innovative. It has traveled the road to a modern destination without totally losing sight of its traditions and values. Although some in Japan lament the passing of old ways, Japan has held on to a reasonable amount of its traditions and values. This is easier to find in its arts and crafts and its literature and films as well as in its social habits. This book will introduce the broad sweep of people, events, and trends, including the successes and failures, of postwar Japan. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Japan.

Women Film Directors

Author : Gwendolyn A. Foster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313368424

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Women Film Directors by Gwendolyn A. Foster Pdf

Until now, there hasn't been one single-volume authoritative reference work on the history of women in film, highlighting nearly every woman filmmaker from the dawn of cinema including Alice Guy (France, 1896), Chantal Akerman (Belgium), Penny Marshall (U.S.), and Sally Potter (U.K.). Every effort has been made to include every kind of woman filmmaker: commercial and mainstream, avant-garde, and minority, and to give a complete cross-section of the work of these remarkable women. Scholars and students of film, popular culture, Women's Studies, and International Studies, as well as film buffs will learn much from this work. The Dictionary covers the careers of nearly 200 women filmmakers, giving vital statistics where available, listings of films directed by these women, and selected bibliographies for further reading. This is a one-volume, one-stop resource, a comprehensive, up-to-date guide that is absolutely essential for any course offering an overview or survey of women's cinema. It offers not only all available statistics, but critical evaluations of the filmmakers' work as well. In order to keep the length manageable, this volume focuses on women who direct fictional narrative films, with occasional forays into the area of the documentary and is limited to film production rather than video production.

Heroic with Grace

Author : Chieko Irie Mulhern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317468677

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Heroic with Grace by Chieko Irie Mulhern Pdf

This work presents the lives and times of eight prominent Japanese women who epitomize the tragedies and triumphs of eight characteristically female roles. In examining the lives of the mythological Empress Jingu, Jito Tenno (645-702), Murasaki Shikibu (970s-1000s), Tomoe Gozen (12th century), Hojo Masako (1157-1225), Hani Motoko (1873-1957), Takamine Hideko (b.1924) and Ariyoshi Sawako (1931-1984), the contributors provide a mosaic of Japanese history and culture that encompasses issues of women's status in various stages of Japanese history, the social climate conducive to positive female roles, the concept of Japanese womanhood in relation to the male hero types of each age and the popular need for strong female figures.

The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke

Author : Arthur Nolletti
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253344840

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The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke by Arthur Nolletti Pdf

The first book-length work in English of one of the most important directors of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

Tanaka Kinuyo

Author : Irene González-López,Michael Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 1474444636

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Tanaka Kinuyo by Irene González-López,Michael Smith Pdf

Praised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka Kinuyo's career spanned the industrial development of cinema - from silent to sound, monochrome to colour. Alongside featuring in films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa, Tanaka was also the only Japanese woman filmmaker between 1953 and 1962, and her films tackled distinctly feminine topics such as prostitution and breast cancer. Her career overlapped with a transformative period in Japanese history, and this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives, subjectivities and modes of analysis for the classical era of Japanese cinema.

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema

Author : Jasper Sharp
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810875418

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Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema by Jasper Sharp Pdf

The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema's long history of production and considerable output has seen films made in a variety of genres, including melodramas, romances, gangster movies, samurai movies, musicals, horror films, and monster films. It has also produced some of the most famous names in the history of cinema: Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Beat Takeshi, Toshirô Mifune, Godzilla, The Ring, Akira, Rashomon, and Seven Samurai. The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema is an introduction to and overview of the long history of Japanese cinema. It aims to provide an entry point for those with little or no familiarity with the subject, while it is organized so that scholars in the field will also be able to use it to find specific information. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, and appendixes of films, film studios, directors, and performers. The cross-referenced dictionary entries cover key films, genres, studios, directors, performers, and other individuals. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Japanese cinema.

Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode

Author : Marcos Centeno,Michael Raine
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039439133

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Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode by Marcos Centeno,Michael Raine Pdf

Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a true documentary tradition due to the apparent preference of Japanese audiences for stylisation over realism, a preference that originated from its theatrical tradition. However, a closer look at the history of Japanese documentary and feature film production reveals an emphasis on actuality and everyday life as a major part of Japanese film culture. That 'documentary mode' – crossing genre and medium like Peter Brooks' 'melodramatic mode' rather than limited to styles of documentary filmmaking alone – identifies rhetoric of authenticity in cinema and related media, even as that rhetoric was sometimes put in service to political and economic ends. The articles in this Special Issue, ‘Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode’, trace important changes in documentary film schools and movements from the 1930s onwards, sometimes in relation to other media, and the efforts of some post-war filmmakers to adapt the styles and ethical commitments that underpin documentary's "impression of authenticity" to their representation of fictional worlds

The Imperial Screen

Author : Peter B. High
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0299181340

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From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the way Japanese directors, scriptwriters, company officials, and bureaucrats colluded to produce films that supported the war effort, Imperial Screen is a highly readable account of the realities of cultural life in wartime Japan. High's treatment of the Japanese film world as a microcosm of the entire sphere of Japanese wartime culture demonstrates what happens when conscientious artists and intellectuals become enmeshed in a totalitarian regime. This English language edition is revised and expanded from the original Japanese edition.

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture

Author : Sandra Buckley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415481526

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This encyclopedia covers culture from the end of the Imperialist period in 1945 right up to date to reflect the vibrant nature of contemporary Japanese society and culture.

The Japanese Cinema Book

Author : Hideaki Fujiki,Alastair Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844576814

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The Japanese Cinema Book by Hideaki Fujiki,Alastair Phillips Pdf

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics such as ecology, spectatorship, home-movies, colonial history and relations with Hollywood and Europe, The Japanese Cinema Book presents a set of new, and often surprising, perspectives on Japanese film. With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise of established and emerging scholars and critics, The Japanese Cinema Book provides a groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a local, regional, national, transnational and global phenomenon. The book's innovative structure combines general surveys of a particular historical topic or critical approach with various micro-level case studies. It argues there is no single fixed Japanese cinema, but instead a fluid and varied field of Japanese filmmaking cultures that continue to exist in a dynamic relationship with other cinemas, media and regions. The Japanese Cinema Book is divided into seven inter-related sections: · Theories and Approaches · * Institutions and Industry · * Film Style · * Genre · * Times and Spaces of Representation · * Social Contexts · * Flows and Interactions

Making Icons

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888208999

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One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narrative tropes and formulaic characterizations in female representations. These repetitions are important, Jennifer Coates asserts, because sentiments and behaviours forbidden during the war and post-war social and political changes were often articulated by or through the female image. Moving across major character types, from mothers to daughters, and schoolteachers to streetwalkers, Making Icons studies the role of the media in shaping the attitudes of the general public. Japanese cinema after the defeat is shown to be an important ground where social experiences were explored, reworked, and eventually accepted or rejected by the audience emotionally invested in these repetitive materials. An examination of 600 films produced and distributed between 1945 and 1964, as well as numerous Japanese-language sources, forms the basis of this rigorous study. Making Icons draws on an art-historical iconographic analysis to explain how viewers derive meanings from images during this peak period of film production and attendance in Japan. ‘It is very difficult not to heap superlatives upon Making Icons. This splendid work sheds a shining light on the situation of women in post-war Japan, and on post-war Japan itself. Not only is this a deft reading of text and context, it expands the very notion of context, seeing stardom through the lens of filmic and extra-filmic texts. A must-read for anyone interested in Japanese cinema.’ —David Desser, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘This is a compelling book. I am excited by Jennifer Coates’s art-historically informed iconographic approach towards female representation in post-war Japanese cinema. Making Icons will certainly make a splash in the field of Japanese film studies.’ —Daisuke Miyao, Professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature, University of California, San Diego