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OverviewDialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Naoki YamamotoPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780520351806ISBN 10: 0520351800 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 25 August 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Realism, Film Theory, Japanese Cinema 1. Naturalism and the Modernization of Japanese Cinema 2. The Machine Aesthetic and Proletarian Realism 3. Literary Adaptation and Textual Realism 4. Documentary Film and Epistemological Realism 5. Neglected Traditions of Bergsonism and Phenomenology Epilogue: Hanada Kiyoteru and Postwar Debates Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsDialectics without Synthesis is a valuable addition to film studies and should be of interest not only to Japanese film specialists but to film and media theorists more broadly. * The Journal of Japanese Studies * Dialectics without Synthesis is a valuable addition to film studies and should be of interest not only to Japanese film specialists but to film and media theorists more broadly. * The Journal of Japanese Studies * Exceptionally meticulous archival research, humanity-driven methodologies, and special attention to historical context. . . .Dialectics without Synthesis is a step forward toward a future in which the chasm between Western and non-Western theory is significantly narrowed. * The Velvet Light Trap * Well-researched and persuasively argued. * Screen * Author InformationNaoki Yamamoto is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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