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The aesthetics of shadow : lighting and Japanese cinema / Daisuke Miyao.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2013 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Miyao, Daisuke.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.
Motion picture industry--Japan--History.
Motion picture industry.
Cinematography--Lighting.
Cinematography.
Cinematographers--Japan.
Cinematographers.
Culture in motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (395 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
By exploring the ""aesthetics of shadow"" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Daisuke Miyao reinterprets Japanese film history.
Contents:
What is the aesthetics of shadow?
Lighting and capitalist-industrial modernity : Shochiku and Hollywood
Flashes of the sword and the star : Shochiku and Jidaigeki
Street films : Shochiku and Germany
The aesthetics of shadow : Shochiku, Toho, and Japan
The cinematography of Miyagawa Kazuo.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-364) and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781299384729
1299384722
9780822399667
0822399660
OCLC:
832316181

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