Classical Japanese cinema revisited
By: Catherine Russell
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781628928594
Subjects: Motion pictures; History
Description: "Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960. Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide new insights on class and gender dynamics. Russell locates Japanese cinema within a global system of reception, and she highlights the importance of the industrial production context of these films. Including studies of landmark films by Ozu, Kurosawa and other directors, this book provides a perfect introduction to a crucial and often misunderstood area of Japanese cultural output. With a critical approach that highlights the "everydayness" of Japanese studio-era cinema, Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Filmography (159-162).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168).

Also issued in print.

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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The classical, the modern, and Japanese cinema in the global system; title: Yasujiro Ozu : a short history of the home drama; title: Kenji Mizoguchi and his women; title: Men with swords and men with suits : the cinema of Akira Kurosawa; title: Mikio Naruse : a Japanese woman's cinema; title: Remembering the war : three postwar war films; title: Conclusion.