| Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 Contributor(s): Gerow, Aaron (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520254562 ISBN-13: 9780520254565 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2009030995 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. He focuses in particular on how one trend in criticism, the Pure Film Movement, changed not only the way films were made, but also how they were conceived. Looking closely at the work of critics, theorists, intellectuals, benshi artists, educators, police, and censors, Gerow finds that this trend established a way of thinking about cinema that would reign in Japan for much of the twentieth century. |