The Japanese Film : Art and Industry - Expanded Edition / Donald Richie, Joseph L. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Joseph L. (Writer and film director), author.

Richie, Donald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture plays, Japanese--History and criticism.

Motion picture plays, Japanese.

Motion pictures--Japan--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film. Now back in print with updated sections, major revaluations, a comprehensive international bibliography, and an exceptional collection of 168 stills ranging over eight decades, this book remains the unchallenged reference for all who seek a broad understanding of the aesthetic, historical, and economic elements of motion pictures from Japan.

Contents:

Frontmatter

table of contents

list of plates

Foreword / Kurosawa, Akira

Authors' Foreword

part one: background

1. Slow Fade-in: 1896-1917

2. Establishing shot: 1917-1923

3. Wipe: 1923-1927

4. Costume and property: 1927-1931

5. The talkies, exterior: 1931-1939

6. The talkies, interior: 1931-1939 (cont.)

7. Shooting script: 1939-1945

8. Background projection: 1939-1945 (cont.)

9. New Sequence: 1945-1949

10. Adaptation and atmosphere: 1949-1954

11. Soft focus: 1954-1959

12. Long-shot: 1954-1959. (cont.)

part two: foreground

13. Content

14. Technique

15. Directors

16. Actors

17. Theaters and Audiences

appendixes

Appendix A. Second and Third Thoughts about the Japanese Film / Anderson, J. L.

Appendix B. Terminal Essay / Richie, Donald

Selected Bibliography: Japanese Language

Selected Bibliography: Non-Japanese Language

charts

Chart 1. Directors as Pupils and Teachers

Chart 2. Development of Major Companies

index

index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 481-491.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691187464

0691187460

OCLC:

1132226691