Powers of the real : cinema, gender, and emotion in interwar Japan / Diane Wei Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Diane Wei, 1979- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 424.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 424

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in motion pictures.

Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923, in motion pictures.

Sex differences in mass media.

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

Motion pictures.

Japan--Civilization--1926-1945.

Japan.

Japan--Civilization--1912-1926.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2019]

Summary:

"Examines the rise of cinema as a mass medium in Japan after the Great Kanto Earthquake, connecting the disaster to the new salience of emotion in public discourse, popular culture, and film and tracing how new forms of intimacy and emotion shaped by mass media became a major focus of cinematic discourse in the 1920s"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Backgrounds: the Great Kanto Earthquake and mass media: Great Kanto Earthquake documentary films and the state

The testimony of the body: Nikkatsu's earthquake melodrama films

"Realism" and modernity

Part II. The power of cinema: identification and emotion: Desire and identification: the aspiring actress problem

Intimacy and alienation: Murayama Tomoyoshi, modern media celebrity, and film

Expressive excess: gendered bodies and proletarian texts.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68417-604-2

OCLC:

1127308546