{"product_id":"dialectics-without-synthesis-japanese-film-theory-and-realism-in-a-global-frame-9780520351790","title":"Dialectics without Synthesis Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDialectics without Synthesisexplores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDialectics without Synthesis\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to film studies and should be of interest not only to Japanese film specialists but to film and media theorists more broadly.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * The Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Exceptionally meticulous archival research, humanity-driven methodologies, and special attention to historical context. . . .\u003ci\u003eDialectics without Synthesis\u003c\/i\u003e is a step forward toward a future in which the chasm between Western and non-Western theory is significantly narrowed.\" * The Velvet Light Trap *\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-researched and persuasively argued.\" * Screen *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Realism, Film Theory, Japanese Cinema \u003cbr\u003e 1. Naturalism and the Modernization of Japanese Cinema \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Machine Aesthetic and Proletarian Realism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Literary Adaptation and Textual Realism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Documentary Film and Epistemological Realism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Neglected Traditions of Bergsonism and Phenomenology\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Hanada Kiyoteru and Postwar Debates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742257283415,"sku":"9780520351790","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520351790.jpg?v=1758383800","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dialectics-without-synthesis-japanese-film-theory-and-realism-in-a-global-frame-9780520351790","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}