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THE JAPANESE CINEMA BOOK - HIDEAKI FUJIKI ALAST...

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most
fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage  broad
thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors  it is the largest and
most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as
Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics
such as ecology  spectatorship  home-movies  colonial history and relations with Hollywood and
Europe  The Japanese Cinema Book presents a set of new  and often surprising  perspectives on
Japanese film. With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise
of established and emerging scholars and critics  The Japanese Cinema Book provides a
groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a
local  regional  national  transnational and global phenomenon. The book's innovative structure
combines general surveys of a particular historical topic or critical approach with various
micro-level case studies. It argues there is no single fixed Japanese cinema  but instead a
fluid and varied field of Japanese filmmaking cultures that continue to exist in a dynamic
relationship with other cinemas  media and regions.  The Japanese Cinema Book is divided into
seven inter-related sections:  · Theories and Approaches · * Institutions and Industry · * Film
Style · * Genre · * Times and Spaces of Representation · * Social Contexts · * Flows and
Interactions

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