Visions of Japanese modernity : articulations of cinema, nation, and spectatorship, 1895-1925 / Aaron Gerow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerow, Aaron Andrew.

Series:

ACLS Fellows' Publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Japan--History--19th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Japan--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Articulations of cinema, nation, and spectatorship, 1895-1925

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 finds that this trend established a way of thinking about cinema that would reign in Japan for much of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Motion Pictures as a Problem

2. Gonda Yasunosuke and the Promise of Film Study

3. Studying the Pure Film

4. The Subject of the Text

5. Managing the Internal

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612772771

9781282772779

1282772775

9780520945593

052094559X

OCLC:

646788639