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Japanese Cinema Goes Global
Japan’s film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unprecedented engagement with global trends. With careful research and also unique first-person observations drawn from years of working within the international industry of Japanese film, the author aims to examine how different generations of Japanese filmmakers engaged and interacted with the structural opportunities and limitations posed by external forces, and how their subjectivity has been shaped by their transnational experiences and has changed as a result. Having been through the globalization of the last part of the twentieth century, are Japanese themselves and overseas consumers of Japanese culture really becoming more cosmopolitan? If so, what does it mean for Japan’s national culture and the traditional sense of national belonging among Japanese people?
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Screening Enlightenment
During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this far-reaching \"enlightenment campaign,\" Hollywood studios disseminated more than six hundred films to theaters, earned significant profits, and showcased the American way of life as a political, social, and cultural model for the war-shattered Japanese population.
InScreening Enlightenment, Hiroshi Kitamura shows how this expansive attempt at cultural globalization helped transform Japan into one of Hollywood's key markets. He also demonstrates the prominent role American cinema played in the \"reeducation\" and \"reorientation\" of the Japanese on behalf of the U.S. government. According to Kitamura, Hollywood achieved widespread results by turning to the support of U.S. government and military authorities, which offered privileged deals to American movies while rigorously controlling Japanese and other cinematic products. The presentation of American ideas and values as an emblem of culture, democracy, and sophistication also allowed the U.S. film industry to expand. However, the studios' efforts would not have been nearly as extensive without the Japanese intermediaries and consumers who interestingly served as the program's best publicists.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, from studio memos and official documents of the occupation to publicity materials and Japanese fan magazines, Kitamura shows how many Japanese supported Hollywood and became active agents of Americanization. A truly interdisciplinary book that combines U.S. diplomatic and cultural history, film and media studies, and modern Japanese history,Screening Enlightenmentoffers new insights into the origins of this unique political and cultural transpacific relationship.
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Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy
For many East Asian nations, cinema and Japanese Imperialism arrived within a few years of each other. Exploring topics such as landscape, gender, modernity and military recruitment, this study details how the respective national cinemas of Japan's territories struggled under, but also engaged with, the Japanese Imperial structures. Japan was ostensibly committed to an ethos of pan-Asianism and this study explores how this sense of the transnational was conveyed cinematically across the occupied lands. Taylor-Jones traces how cinema in the region post-1945 needs to be understood not only in terms of past colonial relationships, but also in relation to how the post-colonial has engaged with shifting political alliances, the opportunities for technological advancement and knowledge, the promise of larger consumer markets, and specific historical conditions of each decade.
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Directory of world cinema. 2, Japan
Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of 'Directory of World Cinema: Japan', this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favourites, and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with contributions from leading critics and film scholars.
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Promiscuous Media
InPromiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese cinema of the time was in fact almost wholly built on a foundation of Russian and British film theory as well as American film genres and techniques. Hori provides a range of examples that illustrate how maternal melodrama and animated features, akin to those popularized by Disney, were adopted wholesale by Japanese filmmakers.
Emperor Hirohito's image, Hori argues, was inseparable from the development of mass media; he was the first emperor whose public appearances were covered by media ranging from postcards to radio broadcasts. Worship of the emperor through viewing his image, Hori shows, taught the Japanese people how to look at images and primed their enjoyment of early animation and documentary films alike.Promiscuous Medialinks the political and the cultural closely in a way that illuminates the nature of twentieth-century Japanese society.
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A Companion to Japanese Cinema
Go beyond Kurosawa and discover an up-to-date and rigorous examination of historical and modern Japanese cinema
In A Companion to Japanese Cinema, distinguished cinematic researcher David Desser deliversinsightfulnew material ona fascinating subject, ranging from the introduction and exploration of under-appreciated directors, like Uchida Tomu and Yoshimura Kozaburo, to an appreciation of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema from the point of view of little-known stars and genres of the 1950s.
This Companion includes new resources that deal in-depthwith the issue of gender in Japanese cinema, including a sustained analysis of Kawase Naomi, arguably the most important female director in Japanese film history.
Readers will appreciate the astute material on the connections and relationships that tie together Japanese television and cinema, with implications for understanding the modern state of Japanese film.The Companion concludes with a discussion of the Japanese media's response to the 3/11earthquake and tsunami that devastated the nation.The book also includes:
* A thorough introduction to the History, Ideology, and Aesthetics of Japanese cinema, including discussions of Kyoto as thecinematic center of Japan and the Pure Film Movement and modern Japanese film style
* An exploration ofthe background to the famous story ofTaki noShiraitoand thesignificant and underappreciated contributions of directorsUchidaTomu, as well as YoshimuraKozaburo
* A rigorous comparison of old and new Japanese cinema, including treatments of Ainu in documentary filmsand modernity in film exhibition
* Practical discussions of intermediality, includingtreatments of scriptwriting in the 1930sand the influence of film on Japanese television
Perfect forupper-level undergraduateand graduate students studying Japanese and Asian cinema, A Companion to Japanese Cinema is a must-read reference foranyone seeking an insightful and contemporary discussion of modern scholarshipin Japanese cinemain the 20th and 21st centuries.
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