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Author:   Daisuke Miyao (Associate Professor of Film, Associate Professor of Film, University of Oregon)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.40cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 17.00cm
Weight:   0.862kg
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9780190937355

ISBN 10:   0190937351
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   10 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Part 1: What Is Japanese Cinema Studies?: Japanese Cinema and Cinema Studies Chapter 1: Japanese Film Without Japan: Toward an Undisciplined Film Studies (Eric Cazdyn) Chapter 2: Triangulating Japanese Film Style (Ben Singer) Chapter 3: Critical Reception: Historical Conceptions of Japanese Film Criticism (Aaron Gerow) Chapter 4: Creating the Audience: Cinema as Popular Recreation and Social Education in Modern Japan (Hideaki Fujiki) Part 2: What Is Japanese Cinema?: Japanese Cinema and the Transnational Network Chapter 5 Adaptation As ""Transcultural Mimesis"" (Michael Raine) Chapter 6 The Edge of Montage: A Case of Modernism/Modanizumu in Japanese Cinema (Chika Kinoshita) Chapter 7 Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: The Formation of Female Stars in Japanese Cinema (Daisuke Miyao) Chapter 8 Performing Colonial Identity: Byeonsa, Colonial Film Spectatorship, and the Formation of National Cinema in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule (Dong Hoon Kim) Chapter 9 Outpost of Hybridity: Paramount's Campaign in Japan, 1952-1962 (Hiroshi Kitamura) Chapter 10 Erasing China in Japan's ""Hong Kong Films"" (Kwai Cheung Lo) Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan's Re-entrance to the Regional Film Industry in the 1950s (Sang Joon Lee) Chapter 12 Yamagata - Asia - Europe: International Film Festival Short-Circuit (Abé Mark Nornes) Part 3: What Japanese Cinema Is!: Japanese Cinema and the Intermedial Practices Chapter 13 Nitrate Film Production in Japan: a Historical Background of the Early Days (Okada Hidenori - Translated by Ayako Saito) Chapter 14 Sketches of Silent Film Sound in Japan: Theatrical Functions of Ballyhoo, Orchestras and Kabuki Ensambles (Hosokawa Shuhei) Chapter 15 The Jidaigeki Film Genre: Twilight Samurai and Its Contexts (Yamamoto Ichiro - Translated by Diane Wei Lewis) Chapter 16 Occupation and Memory: the Representation of Woman's Body in Postwar Japanese (Ayako Saito) Chapter 17 Cinema and Memory: Confabulated Memories, Nishijin (1961) (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano) Chapter 18 By Other Hands: Environment and Apparatus in 1960s Intermedia (Myriam Sas) Chapter 19 Viral Contagion in the Ringu Intertext (Carlos Rojas) Chapter 20 Manga/Anime/Games (the Media Mix) and the Metaphoric Economy of World (Alexander Zahlten)"

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Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema can be useful even for scholars in Film Theory with a minor interest for Japan or Asia. Let's hope this excellent Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema will be translated into other languages, including...Japanese! * Yves Laberge, newbooks.asia *

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Daisuke Miyao is Associate Professor of Japanese Film and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, Eiga wa neko dearu: Hajimete no cinema sutadizu [Cinema Is a Cat: Introduction to Cinema Studies], and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom.

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