Aaron Gerow

Visions of Japanese Modernity

Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925

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Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. He focuses in particular on how one trend in criticism, the Pure Film Movement, changed not only the way films were made, but also how they were conceived. Looking closely at the work of critics, theorists, intellectuals, benshi artists, educators, police, and censors, Gerow fin… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-94559-3
EAN: 9780520945593
Produktnummer: 21596879
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 344 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'424 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Aaron Gerow is Associate Professor of Japanese Cinema in the Film Studies Program and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is the author of Kitano Takeshi, A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan, and Reference Guide to Japanese Film Studies, coauthored with Abé Mark Nornes.