{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-shadow-9780822354079","title":"The Aesthetics of Shadow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy exploring the \"aesthetics of shadow\" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Daisuke Miyao reinterprets Japanese film history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is sophisticated and superbly researched, breaking new ground with the richness of its historical detail. Daisuke Miyao's innovative approach opens up the field beyond the usual focus on genre, stars, and key authors. It will serve as an example for the writing of histories outside of Japanese cinema.\"—\u003cb\u003eFrances Guerin\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e tracks through Japanese film history with an eye on the cultural and technological underpinnings of aesthetic change. Many people have written on the aesthetic transformations of Japanese film in the first half of the twentieth century, but no one has done it with such close attention to the material basis of cinema. It is a refreshingly new approach to Japanese history. Daisuke Miyao delivers a lively and fascinating account of cinematography in the first half century of Japanese cinema.\"—\u003cb\u003eAbé Mark Nornes\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eForest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Film-history texts can often be dull, lack real insight beyond a litany of factual information, and plod along to foregone conclusions, structured as simply a lecture, where content overrides form. Daisuke Miyao's The \u003ci\u003eAesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e isn't only an exception to these rules, but establishes a benchmark for which contemporary film-history research should aim…[H]e achieves this, at least in part, by structuring his scholarship as more of a thriller, than merely the standard (and soporific) fact-upon-fact approach.” -- Clayton Dillard * Slant Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e“The book is grounded by exhaustive research; Miyao captures the debates surrounding shifts in lighting trends impeccably, … [it has an] interdisciplinary applicability to the fields of film, cultural studies and art history. The work articulates such a detailed understanding of cinematography and lighting practices that it would also be of great interest to cinematographers and related film practitioners.” -- Jessica Balanzategui * Media International Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\"In conclusion, the central thesis of this book problematizes much of what has been published in English on early Japanese cinema to date. As such, the work is a welcome addition to existing studies by Joanne Bernardi, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, and Aaron Gerow.\" -- Isolde Standish * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a solid work, creating an insightful and persuasive argument for the relationship between a particular aesthetic and a particular ideological environment.\" -- Timothy Iles * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Miyao] provides an... abundance of detail, but the overall approach is revelatory, culminating in a chapter about Japan's most celebrated cinematographer, Miyagawa Kazuo...\" -- Jasper Sharp * Sight \u0026amp; Sound *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the scholarship on cinema and modernity in Japan.... Anyone with a basic knowledge of Japanese film history will find the book accessible, but specialists in particular will welcome this study as an important and comprehensive new reference, especially as it pertains to Shōchiku and Tōhō.\" -- Diane Wei Lewis * Monumenta Nipponica *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. What is the Aesthetics of Shadow? 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Lighting and Capitalist-Industrial Modernity: Shochiku and Hollywood 15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Flashes of the Sword and the Star: Shochiku and Jidaigeki 67\u003cbr\u003e 3. Street Films: Shochiku and Germany 119\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Aesthetics of Shadow: Shochiku, Tohu, and Japan 173\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Cinematography of Miyagawa Kazuo 255\u003cbr\u003e Notes 283\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 329\u003cbr\u003e Index 365","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083684520279,"sku":"9780822354079","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822354079.jpg?v=1725549712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-aesthetics-of-shadow-9780822354079","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}