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Explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. The author focuses in particular on how one trend in criticism, the "Pure Film Movement", changed not only the way films were made, but also how they were conceived.

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"The author offers not just a history of early Japanese cinema but also a history of Japanese film studies that describes the struggles to define cinema, control spectatorship, and articulate modernity." Choice "Remarkable for it breadth and precision." -- Alexander Jacoby Sight & Sound Magazine "The book has a wealth of information." -- Vili Maunula Akirakurosawa.info

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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Motion Pictures as a Problem 2. Gonda Yasunosuke and the Promise of Film Study 3. Studying the Pure Film 4. The Subject of the Text: Benshi, Authors, and Industry 5. Managing the Internal Conclusion: Mixture, Hegemony, and Resistance Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Visions of Japanese Modernity

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9780520254565, 978-0520254565
      ISBN10: 0520254562
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. The author focuses in particular on how one trend in criticism, the "Pure Film Movement", changed not only the way films were made, but also how they were conceived.

      Trade Review
      "The author offers not just a history of early Japanese cinema but also a history of Japanese film studies that describes the struggles to define cinema, control spectatorship, and articulate modernity." Choice "Remarkable for it breadth and precision." -- Alexander Jacoby Sight & Sound Magazine "The book has a wealth of information." -- Vili Maunula Akirakurosawa.info

      Table of Contents
      Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Motion Pictures as a Problem 2. Gonda Yasunosuke and the Promise of Film Study 3. Studying the Pure Film 4. The Subject of the Text: Benshi, Authors, and Industry 5. Managing the Internal Conclusion: Mixture, Hegemony, and Resistance Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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