Screening enlightenment
Subtitle: Hollywood and the cultural reconstruction of defeated Japan
By: Hiroshi Kitamura.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780801445996
Subjects: Motion pictures, American -- Japan -- Influence; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History; Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952; Japan -- Civilization -- American influences; Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thwarted ambitions : Hollywood and Japan before the Second World War; title: Renewed intimacies : Hollywood, war, and occupation; title: Contested terrains : occupation censorship and Japanese cinema; title: Corporatist tensions : Hollywood versus the U.S. occupation; title: Fountains of culture : Hollywood's marketing in defeated Japan; title: Presenting culture : the exhibition of American movies; title: Seeking enlightenment : the culture elites and American movies; title: Choosing America : Eiga no tomo and the making of a new fan.