Nippon Modern : : Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s / / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.
"Devastated by the 1923 earthquake, Tokyo re-built itself in symbiosis with an image of modernity concocted by its own film studios. Nippon Modern renders that image, aspect after fascinating aspect, in sharp detail. Scores of films make up that image, a few resurrected in this volume for inten...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 26 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. The Creation of Modern Space
- 2. Vernacular Meanings of Genre: The Middle-Class Film
- 3. Embodying the Modern
- 4. Imaging Modern Girls in the Japanese Woman's Film
- 5. The Japanese Modern in Film Style
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author