| Contents |
Suspense and border crossing : Ozu Yasujirō's crime melodrama / Ryoko Misono ; translated by Kimberlee Diane Sanders and Shota T. Ogawa -- Beyond Mt. Fuji and the Lenin cap : identity crisis in Taniguchi Senkichi's Akasen kichi (The red light military base, 1953) / Hideyuki Nakamura ; translated by Shota T. Ogawa and Bianca Briciu -- Home movies of the revolution: proletarian filmmaking and countermobilization in interwar Japan / Diane Wei Lewis -- When Marnie was there : female friendship film and the genealogy of queer girls culture / Yuka Kanno -- Making sense of Nakai Masakazu's film theory, "Kino Satz" / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- Geysers of another nature : the optical unconscious of the Japanese science film / Anne McKnight -- Kaiju films as exportable content : reassessing the function of the Japanese Film Export Promotion Association / Takeshi Tanikawa ; translated by Caitlin Casiello and Joanne Bernardi -- "Fugitives" from the studio system : Ikebe Ryō, Sada Keiji, and the transition from cinema to television in the early 1960s / Takafusa Hatori -- Solo animation in Japan : empathy for the drawn body / Paul Roquet -- Media models of "amateur" film and manga / Alexander Zahlten -- Utsushie : Japanese magic lantern performance as pre-cinematic projection practice / Machiko Kusahara -- "Inter-mediating" global modernity : Benshi film narrators, multisensory performance, and fan culture / Kyoko Omori -- Between silent and sound : the liminal space of the Japanese "sound version" / Johan Nordström -- Marionettes no longer : politics in the early puppet animation of Kawamoto Kihachirō / Noboru Tomonari -- Rhetorics of autonomy and mobility in Japanese "AAA" games : the metal gear solid and Resident evil series within a global media context / Daniel Johnson -- Pointing through the screen : archiving, surveillance, and atomization in the wake of Japan's 2011 triple disasters / Joel Neville Anderson -- A historical survey of film archiving in Japan / Kae Ishihara -- Japanese film history and the challenges of IMAGICA WEST Corp. / Kanta Shibata (translated by Thomas Kabara and Isabella Bilodeau) -- A case study of Japanese film exhibition in North America : the Japan Society, New York / Kyoko Hirano -- Regional film archive in transit: Yasui Yoshio and Kobe Planet Film Archive / Shota T. Ogawa -- New paths toward preserving Japanese cinema : the Toy Film Museum backstory / Joanne Bernardi. |
| Abstract |
"The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the field. The volume's twenty-one chapters represent work by authors with diverse backgrounds and expertise, recasting traditional questions of authorship, genre, and industry in broad conceptual frameworks such as gender, media theory, archive studies, and neoliberalism. The volume is divided into four sections, each representing an emergent area of inquiry: "Decentring classical cinema"; "Questions of industry"; "Intermedia as an approach"; "The object life of film." This is the first anthology of Japanese cinema scholarship to span the temporal framework of two hundred years, from the vibrant magic lantern culture of the nineteenth century, through to the formation of the film industry in the twentieth century, and culminating in cinema's migration to gaming, surveillance video, and other new media platforms of the twenty first century. This handbook will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Japanese studies, film studies and cultural studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | Some chapters are translations from Japanese to English. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020012808 |
| ISBN | 9781138685529 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
