{"product_id":"what-is-japanese-cinema-9780231191623","title":"What Is Japanese Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is Japanese Cinema?\u003c\/i\u003e is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compact, breezy, and stimulating summary of Japanese film history. . . . Yomota's book offers something largely absent from English-language writing about Japanese cinema: a Japanese perspective. -- Kazu Watanabe * Film Comment *\u003cbr\u003eA deft and engaging history of Japanese film. -- Roger Pulvers * Japan Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent history of Japanese film. Invaluable...Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eNo living scholar-critic of Japanese movies possesses Yomota Inuhiko's encyclopedic range and sheer passion for film.  \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Japanese Cinema?\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force of filmic history: a concise and spirited account of how Japanese film came to be, illuminating carryovers from native theatrical traditions and the tensions lining the political history of modern East Asia.  That Japanese cinema has all along been local, and—in its imperial ambitions, aesthetic power, or moral force—global in its reach, is a matter that this insightful book brings remarkably to light. -- Paul Anderer, author of \u003ci\u003eKurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA famously rambunctious critic, Inuhiko Yomota proves to be an even better pedagogue. He deftly organizes Japan’s kaleidoscopic genres and film fashions into a totality you can grasp.  Auteurs and stars sparkle above an omnivorous industry that metabolized traditional theater, popular manga, and Hollywood techniques into unmistakably Japanese  forms.  A swift, truly satisfying summary, \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Japanese Cinema?\u003c\/i\u003e is also just as vibrant and searching as its title, because its author is clearly in the thrall of his marvelous subject. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is Japanese Cinema? \u003c\/i\u003egoes beyond the auteurist criticism that tells a history of cinema as a compilation of masterpieces. Instead, the work locates cinema in the specific contexts of cultural history as well as technological history. Yomota Inuhiko's knowledge of and attentiveness to film theories and histories is incredible. -- Daisuke Miyao, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Names and Film Titles\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the English Translation\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Motion Pictures: 1896–1918\u003cbr\u003e2. The Rise of Silent Film: 1917–1930\u003cbr\u003e3. The First Golden Age: 1927–1940\u003cbr\u003e4. Japanese Cinema During Wartime\u003cbr\u003e5. Film Production in the Colonies and Occupied Lands\u003cbr\u003e6. Japanese Cinema Under American Occupation: 1945–1952\u003cbr\u003e7. Toward a Second Golden Age: 1952–1960\u003cbr\u003e8. Upheaval Amidst Steady Decline: 1961–1970\u003cbr\u003e9. Decline and Torpor: 1971–1980\u003cbr\u003e10. The Collapse of the Studio System: 1981–1990\u003cbr\u003e11. The Indies Start to Flourish: 1991–2000\u003cbr\u003e12. Within a Production Bubble: 2001–2011\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524655554903,"sku":"9780231191623","price":61.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231191623.jpg?v=1731857633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-is-japanese-cinema-9780231191623","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}