A Companion to Japanese Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781118955321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 720 str.

David Desser

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Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction 1David DesserSection 1 History, Ideology, Aesthetics 251 Kyoto - The "Hollywood of Japan" 27Diane Wei Lewis2 The Pure Film Movement and Modern Japanese Film Style 49Laura Lee3 Shiraito Redux: Text, Body, Desire from Kyoka to Mizoguchi 67Ayako Saito4 The Adventures of Uchida Tomu 90Daisuke Miyao5 Yoshimura Kozaburo and the Working Woman in the Old Capital 106Alexander Jacoby6 Calico-World in Rainbow Colors: The Aesthetics of Gender in 1950s Toei Jidaigeki 130Junko Yamazaki Copyrighted Material7 Silverscreen Dreamboats and the Polyvocal Address 149Earl Jackson8 Mad, Bad, and Beautiful: Revisiting Kurosawa's Women 174Dolores P. Martinez9 Biographies of Loss: The Cinematic Melancholy of Kawase Naomi 193Erin Schoneveld10 Shaping the Anime Industry: Second Generation Pioneers and the Emergence of the Studio System 215Laura Montero-Plata and Marie Pruvost-Delaspre11 Shapeshifting in Anime: Form and Meaning 247Richard J. LeskoskySection 2 The Old and the New 26912 Ainu in Documentary Films: Promiscuous Iconography and the Absent Image 271Marcos P. Centeno-Martín13 Modernity in Film Exhibition: The Rise of Modern Movie Theaters in Tokyo, 1920s-1930s 294Chie Niita14 Female Stardom and National Identity in Postwar Japan 316Jennifer Coates15 Wild, Sexy, and Funny: Toei Does "Pink" 334Laura Treglia16 Behind the Voice that Brought Peace: The Emperor as Hero in The Emperor in August 352Griseldis Kirsch17 Queer Time in Summer Vacation 1999 369Nina Cornyetz18 Horror Old and New: Nakata Hideo's Ringu (1998) between J-Horror and Hibakusha Cinema 382Olga V. Solovieva19 Youth, Trauma, and Contemporary Japanese Cinema 401Jay McRoy20 "Female Director": Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japan 421Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández and Irene González-López21 The Dying Art of Japanese Cinema 446Kirsten CatherSection 3 Intermediality 46922 Before Media Mix: The Electric Ecology 471Alexander Zahlten23 Gosho and the Gagman: Scriptwriting at the Time of the Talkie Crisis 493Lauri Kitsnik24 Inventing Television through Film: Japanese Cinema and TV, 1953-1963 510Aaron Gerow25 'Scope and the City: Reframing a Modern Metropolis 529Jasper Sharp26 Bodies in Motion: Japanese Film of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Era between Mass Culture, Media, and Memory 547Ryan Cook27 Adaptation as Cinematic Translation: Murakami Haruki and Ichikawa Jun's Tony Takitani 568Mika Ko28 Blockbusters in Japan: Hit Film Culture and the Rise of Fuji Television as Commercial Film Studio 591Rayna Denison29 Hani Susumu, Nouvelle Vague in Japan and Processive Cinema 612Takuya Tsunoda30 The Cultural Turn in Post-3.11 Documentary: Kamanaka Hitomi's Accented Documentary 639Mitsuyo Wada-MarcianoIndex 658

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David Desser is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies, Comparative and World Literatures and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois, USA. He has authored or edited over a dozen books on Japanese and Hong Kong cinema, including The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity and Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave.