A companion to Japanese cinema

Author(s)

• Desser, David

Bibliographic Information

A companion to Japanese cinema

edited by David Desser

（Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas）

Wiley Blackwell, 2022

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Go beyond Kurosawa and discover an up-to-date and rigorous examination of historical and modern Japanese cinema In A Companion to Japanese Cinema, distinguished cinematic researcher David Desser delivers insightful new material on a fascinating subject, ranging from the introduction and exploration of under-appreciated directors, like Uchida Tomu and Yoshimura Kozaburo, to an appreciation of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema from the point of view of little-known stars and genres of the 1950s. This Companion includes new resources that deal in-depth with the issue of gender in Japanese cinema, including a sustained analysis of Kawase Naomi, arguably the most important female director in Japanese film history. Readers will appreciate the astute material on the connections and relationships that tie together Japanese television and cinema, with implications for understanding the modern state of Japanese film. The Companion concludes with a discussion of the Japanese media's response to the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the nation. The book also includes: A thorough introduction to the History, Ideology, and Aesthetics of Japanese cinema, including discussions of Kyoto as the cinematic center of Japan and the Pure Film Movement and modern Japanese film style An exploration of the background to the famous story of Taki no Shiraito and the significant and underappreciated contributions of directors Uchida Tomu, as well as Yoshimura Kozaburo A rigorous comparison of old and new Japanese cinema, including treatments of Ainu in documentary films and modernity in film exhibition Practical discussions of intermediality, including treatments of scriptwriting in the 1930s and the influence of film on Japanese television Perfect for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying Japanese and Asian cinema, A Companion to Japanese Cinema is a must-read reference for anyone seeking an insightful and contemporary discussion of modern scholarship in Japanese cinema in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 David Desser Section 1 History, Ideology, Aesthetics 25 1 Kyoto - The "Hollywood of Japan" 27 Diane Wei Lewis 2 The Pure Film Movement and Modern Japanese Film Style 49 Laura Lee 3 Shiraito Redux: Text, Body, Desire from Kyoka to Mizoguchi 67 Ayako Saito 4 The Adventures of Uchida Tomu 90 Daisuke Miyao 5 Yoshimura Kozaburo and the Working Woman in the Old Capital 106 Alexander Jacoby 6 Calico-World in Rainbow Colors: The Aesthetics of Gender in 1950s Toei Jidaigeki 130 Junko Yamazaki Copyrighted Material 7 Silverscreen Dreamboats and the Polyvocal Address 149 Earl Jackson 8 Mad, Bad, and Beautiful: Revisiting Kurosawa's Women 174 Dolores P. Martinez 9 Biographies of Loss: The Cinematic Melancholy of Kawase Naomi 193 Erin Schoneveld 10 Shaping the Anime Industry: Second Generation Pioneers and the Emergence of the Studio System 215 Laura Montero-Plata and Marie Pruvost-Delaspre 11 Shapeshifting in Anime: Form and Meaning 247 Richard J. Leskosky Section 2 The Old and the New 269 12 Ainu in Documentary Films: Promiscuous Iconography and the Absent Image 271 Marcos P. Centeno-Martin 13 Modernity in Film Exhibition: The Rise of Modern Movie Theaters in Tokyo, 1920s-1930s 294 Chie Niita 14 Female Stardom and National Identity in Postwar Japan 316 Jennifer Coates 15 Wild, Sexy, and Funny: Toei Does "Pink" 334 Laura Treglia 16 Behind the Voice that Brought Peace: The Emperor as Hero in The Emperor in August 352 Griseldis Kirsch 17 Queer Time in Summer Vacation 1999 369 Nina Cornyetz 18 Horror Old and New: Nakata Hideo's Ringu (1998) between J-Horror and Hibakusha Cinema 382 Olga V. Solovieva 19 Youth, Trauma, and Contemporary Japanese Cinema 401 Jay McRoy 20 "Female Director": Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japan 421 Alejandra Armendariz-Hernandez and Irene Gonzalez-Lopez 21 The Dying Art of Japanese Cinema 446 Kirsten Cather Section 3 Intermediality 469 22 Before Media Mix: The Electric Ecology 471 Alexander Zahlten 23 Gosho and the Gagman: Scriptwriting at the Time of the Talkie Crisis 493 Lauri Kitsnik 24 Inventing Television through Film: Japanese Cinema and TV, 1953-1963 510 Aaron Gerow 25 'Scope and the City: Reframing a Modern Metropolis 529 Jasper Sharp 26 Bodies in Motion: Japanese Film of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Era between Mass Culture, Media, and Memory 547 Ryan Cook 27 Adaptation as Cinematic Translation: Murakami Haruki and Ichikawa Jun's Tony Takitani 568 Mika Ko 28 Blockbusters in Japan: Hit Film Culture and the Rise of Fuji Television as Commercial Film Studio 591 Rayna Denison 29 Hani Susumu, Nouvelle Vague in Japan and Processive Cinema 612 Takuya Tsunoda 30 The Cultural Turn in Post-3.11 Documentary: Kamanaka Hitomi's Accented Documentary 639 Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano Index 658

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Details

• NCID: BC1387112X
• ISBN:
  • 9781118955321
• LCCN: 2021025947
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Hoboken]
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 692 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 791.430952
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Motion pictures -- Japan -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB08940113