{"product_id":"the-flash-of-capital-9780822329398","title":"The Flash of Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, this title theorizes a cultural history that illuminates the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders, where culture and capital crisscross - and in doing so, develops a new way of understanding historical change and transformation in modern Japan and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cazdyn’s work is original, unique, and provocative. He asks hard questions, makes surprising connections, and as a result forces us to rethink the relationship of the aesthetic and the social in Japanese modernity.”—Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, author of \u003ci\u003eKurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book redesigns the way in which Japanese cinema must be approached, taking into account the ‘longer term’ dynamics of economic formations as well as the way Japan is stitched into ‘global’ contemporary processes.”—Paul Willemen, author of \u003ci\u003eLooks and Frictions: Essays in Cultural Studies and Film Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation \u003cbr\u003e II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406030283095,"sku":"9780822329398","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329398.jpg?v=1730494301","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-flash-of-capital-9780822329398","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}