{"product_id":"visions-of-japanese-modernity-9780520254565","title":"Visions of Japanese Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u0026amp; Sound Magazine \"The book has a wealth of information.\" -- Vili Maunula Akirakurosawa.info\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402832322903,"sku":"9780520254565","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520254565.jpg?v=1730481637","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visions-of-japanese-modernity-9780520254565","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}