The end of Japanese cinema : industrial genres, national times, and media ecologies / Alexander Zahlten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zahlten, Alexander, 1973- author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Mass media--Japan--History--20th century.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular industrial genres: Pink Film (independently distributed softcore pornographic films), Kadokawa (big-budget productions as part of a transmedia strategy), and V-Cinema (direct-to-video films). He examines the conditions of these films' production to demonstrate how the media industry itself becomes part of the politics of the media text and to highlight the complex negotiation between media and politics, culture, and identity in Japan. Zahlten points to a different history of film, one in which a once-powerful film industry transformed into becoming only one component within a complex media-mix ecology. In so doing, Zahlten opens new paths for uncovering similar broad processes in other large media societies.A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Contents:

Establishing pink film

Pink times and pink spaces

Kadokawa film

The radicalization of Kadokawa film

V-cinema

Subgenres: violence, finances, sex, and true accounts

Conclusion: present histories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372462

0822372460

OCLC:

980600350