The Attractive Empire : : Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan / / Michael Baskett.
"Because imperialism has had such an appalling ideological reputation, we've lost sight of its excitement, the breathless anticipation of adventures in far-off lands. The Attractive Empire is a tour de force of enthralling historical scholarship that puts the appeal, and seductions, of imp...
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Baskett, Michael, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Attractive Empire : Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan / Michael Baskett. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource (224 p.) : 25 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Lost Histories -- Chapter One. From Film Colony to Film Sphere -- Chapter Two. Media Empire -- Chapter Three. Imperial Acts -- Chapter Four. Competing Empires in Transnational Asia -- Chapter Five. The Emperor's Celluloid Army Marches On -- Selected Filmography -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Because imperialism has had such an appalling ideological reputation, we've lost sight of its excitement, the breathless anticipation of adventures in far-off lands. The Attractive Empire is a tour de force of enthralling historical scholarship that puts the appeal, and seductions, of imperialism on display, without underestimating its ugly consequences. Like its chosen subject, the book covers an astonishing array of texts, events, people, and issues. The clarity and vividness of the writing make it work effortlessly. Baskett's organizational skills, narrative, and rhetoric deftly orchestrate a complex subject." -Darrell William Davis, University of New South Wales"Michael Baskett removes imperial Japanese film from its solitary confinement and commandingly analyzes how it functioned internationally. He commits a depth of research rarely found in English-language studies of Japanese cinema, and his mastery of the primary and secondary sources from beyond Japan's borders distinctly set his book apart from previous scholarship on the subject. Not only is this a work that historians and film scholars will appreciate but also one that I look forward to assigning to undergraduates." -Barak Kushner, Cambridge UniversityJapanese film crews were shooting feature-length movies in China nearly three decades before Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) reputedly put Japan on the international film map. Although few would readily associate Japan's film industry with either imperialism or the domination of world markets, the country's film culture developed in lock step with its empire, which, at its peak in 1943, included territories from the Aleutians to Australia and from Midway Island to India. With each military victory, Japanese film culture's sphere of influence expanded deeper into Asia, first clashing with and ultimately replacing Hollywood as the main source of news, education, and entertainment for millions. The Attractive Empire is the first comprehensive examination of the attitudes, ideals, and myths of Japanese imperialism as represented in its film culture. In this stimulating new study, Michael Baskett traces the development of Japanese film culture from its unapologetically colonial roots in Taiwan and Korea to less obvious manifestations of empire such as the semicolonial markets of Manchuria and Shanghai and occupied territories in Southeast Asia. Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources from public and private archives across Asia, Europe, and the United States, Baskett provides close readings of individual films and trenchant analyses of Japanese assumptions about Asian ethnic and cultural differences. Finally, he highlights the place of empire in the struggle at legislative, distribution, and exhibition levels to wrest the "hearts and minds" of Asian film audiences from Hollywood in the 1930s as well as in Japan's attempts to maintain that hegemony during its alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Motion pictures Japan History. Motion pictures, Japanese Asia History. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824831639 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824864606 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824864606 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824864606/original |
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