Time frames : Japanese cinema and the unfolding of history / Scott Nygren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nygren, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Japan--History.

Motion pictures.

Japan.

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]

Summary:

Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be ignored. Scott Nygren takes up the central question of which and whose Japan do critics and historians mean when reviewing the country's cinema-an issue complicated by assumptions about cultural purity, Japan's appropriation of Western ideas and technologies, and the very existence of a West and an Orientalist non-West.

Deftly moving backward and forward from the pivotal 1951 festival, Nygren traces the invention of Japanese film history as a disciplinary mode of knowledge. Bringing the discussion to Japan's reception of postmodernism, Nygren looks at the emergence of video art and anime and the end of Japanese film history as a meaningful concept in the rise of the Internet and globalization. Nygren highlights the creative exchange among North American, European, and Asian media, places Japanese film at the center of this discourse, and, ultimately, reveals its global role as a cultural medium, capable of transforming theory.

Contents:

1 Thresholds 1

2 Dislocations 26

3 Incisions 59

4 Kyoto/Venezia 99

5 Reconsidering Humanism 115

6 International Modernism 164

7 Postmodern Networks 199

Epilogue: Next 238

Appendix Japanese Networked History: A Metachronology of Culturally Significant Events in Relation to Film 247

Distribution Information 287.

Notes:

Includes filmography: pages 283-286.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.

ISBN:

9780816647071

0816647070

9780816647088

0816647089

OCLC:

72868572

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