Picturing Japaneseness Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film

Name: Picturing Japaneseness Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
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ISBN: 9780231102308

ISBN-10: 0231102305

ISBN-13: 9780231102308

Edition: 1996

Authors: Darrell William Davis

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Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342



Aknowledgments



Moving Pictures of Japaneseness



In the Postnational Neighborhood There Are No Foreigners (Knock on Wood): Nation as Cine-Superstition



Approaching the Monumental Style



Two Cultures and the Japanese Period Film



Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939): "A Riptide of Reaction"



Genroku Chushingura (1941-1942)



Historical Uses and Misuses: The Janus Face(s) of The Abe Clan (1938)



Other Manifestations of the Monumental Style


Selected Bibliography


Filmography


Index