The Oxford handbook of Japanese cinema / edited by Daisuke Miyao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miyao, Daisuke, editor.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Japan.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry.

Japan.

Motion picture industry--Japan.

Japan--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction

What is Japanese cinema studies?: Japanese cinema and cinema studies. Japanese film without Japan: toward a nondisciplined film studies / Eric Cazdyn

Triangulating Japanese film style / Ben Singer

Critical reception: historical conceptions of Japanese film criticism / Aaron Gerow

Creating the audience: cinema as popular recreation and social education in modern Japan / Hideaki Fujiki

What is Japanese cinema?: Japanese cinema and the transnational network. Adaptation as "transcultural mimesis" in Japanese cinema / Michael Raine

The edge of montage: a case of modernism/modanizumu in Japanese cinema / Chika Kinoshita

Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: the formation of female stars in Japanese cinema / Daisuke Miyao

Performing colonial identity: Byeonsa, colonial film spectatorship, and the formation of national cinema in Korea under Japanese colonial rule / Dong Hoon Kim

Outpost of hybridity: Paramount's campaign in Japan, 1952-1962 / Hiroshi Kitamura

Erasing China in Japan's "Hong Kong films" / Kwai Cheung Lo

The emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan's reentrance to the regional film industry in the 1950s / Sangjoon Lee

Yamagata-Asia-Europe: the International Film Festival short circuit / Abé Mark Nornes

What Japanese cinema is!: Japanese cinema and the intermedial practices. Nitrate film production in Japan: a historical background of the early days / Hidenori Okada (translated by Ayako Saito and Daisuke Miyao)

Sketches of silent film sound in Japan: theatrical functions of ballyhoo, orchestras and Kabuki ensembles / Shuhei Hosokawa

The Jidaigeki film: Twilight Samurai

A Salaryman

Producer's Point of View / Ichiro Yamamoto (translated by Diane Wei Lewis)

Occupation and memory: the representation of woman's body in postwar Japanese cinema / Ayako Saito

Reading Nishijin (1961) as cinematic memory / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

By other hands: environment and apparatus in 1960s intermedia / Miryam Sas

Viral contagion in the Ringu intertext / Carlos Rojas

Media mix and the metaphoric economy of world / Alexander Zahlten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9780199731664

0199731667

OCLC:

841187530

Publisher Number:

99956882493