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Author | : Darrell William Davis |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231102315 |
Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.
Author | : Darrell William Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
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Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.
Author | : Dennis Washburn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 052177182X |
Word and Image in Japanese Cinema examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle, a dynamic that has played an important role in much of Japanese film. The tension between the controlling order of words and the liberating fragmentation of images has been an important force that has shaped modern culture in Japan and that has also determined the evolution of its cinema. In exploring the rift between word and image, the essays in this volume clarify the cultural imperatives that Japanese cinema reflects, as well as the ways in which the dialectic of word and image has informed the understanding and critical reception of Japanese cinema in the West.
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Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Darrell William Davis |
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
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Author | : Tim Cross |
Publisher | : Global Oriental |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004212981 |
This provoking new study of the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) examines the ideological foundation of its place in history and the broader context of Japanese cultural values where it has emerged as a so called ‘quintessential’ component of the culture. It was in fact, Sen Soshitsu Xl, grandmaster of Urasenke, today the most globally prominent tea school, who argued in 1872 that tea should be viewed as the expression of the moral universe of the nation. A practising teamaster himself, the author argues, however, that tea was many other things: it was privilege, politics, power and the lever for passion and commitment in the theatre of war. Through a methodological framework rooted in current approaches, he demonstrates how the iconic images as supposedly timeless examples of Japanese tradition have been the subject of manipulation as ideological tools and speaks to presentations of cultural identity in Japanese society today.
Author | : Robert N. Bellah |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520235983 |
"Bellah is a sociologist with a grand vision of history, deeply concerned with the twists and turns of religious values, weaving pre-modern religious thinking into the debates of modernization and modernity. He takes a reflective turn with Imagining Japan, evidencing his profound concern with religious evolution."—Tetsuo Najita, University of Chicago "One of the most original attempts to understand some of the psychological and symbolic roots of the central problems in Japanese history. Bellah masterfully brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japan, making a very important contribution to Japanese Studies."—S. N. Eisenstadt, Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University and author of Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View
Author | : Shoma Munshi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136120580 |
In examining the links between gender and the media, this volume asks questions involving the relationship between global media flows, gender and modernity in the region.
Author | : Conrad Totman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1119022355 |
This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism. Updated to include an epilogue on Japan today and tomorrow. Now includes more on women in history and more on international relations. Bibliographical listings have been updated and enlarged. Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
Author | : Andrew Dorman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137551607 |
This book offers insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese cinema of the early 21st century. The impact of transnational production practices on films such as Dolls (2002), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), and 13 Assassins (2010) is considered through textual and empirical analysis. The author discusses contradictory forms of cultural representation – cultural concealment and cultural performance – and their relationship to both changing practices in the Japanese film industry and the global film market. Case studies take into account popular genres such as J Horror and jidaigeki period films, as well as the work of renowned filmmakers Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Miike, Shinya Tsukamoto and Kiyoshi Kurosawa.