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Visions of Japanese modernity : articulations of cinema, nation, and spectatorship, 1895–1925

Name: Visions of Japanese modernity : articulations of cinema, nation, and spectatorship, 1895–1925
ISBN: 9780520256729

Aaron Andrew Gerow

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In this study, Aaron Gerow focuses on the early period in which the institutional and narrational structure of Japanese cinema was in flux, arguing that the transnational intertext is less important than the power-laden operations by which the meaning of cinema itself was discursively defined. Both progressive critics of the 'pure film' movement and the more conservative Japanese cultural bureaucrats demanded a unitary text that suppressed the hybrid and unpredictable meanings attendant on early Japanese cinema's informal exhibition contexts. Gerow points out the irony that the progressive and individualist pure film movement critics worked in concert with the Japanese state to undo the 'theft' of Japanese cinema, proposing to replace representations of Japan in Western films by exporting a Japanese cinema 'reformed' to emulate the international norm.

Categories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

Year:

2010

Publisher:

University of California Press

Language:

english

Pages:

323

ISBN 10:

0520256727