Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film

ISBN-13: 9780231102315 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str.

Darrell William Davis

Opis

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.