Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study / / Jennifer Coates.

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• VerfasserIn: Coates, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations 18 B&W images

Offers the first ethno-historical study of cinema-going and film viewership in JapanIntroduces an ethno-historical approach to Japanese Film Studies for the first time, in order to bring the rarely-heard voices of everyday viewers into scholarly discourseBlends ethnographic and film studies approaches to create a new methodology for visually analysing interview materialContributes scholarship on cinema in the Kansai region and neighbouring areas of Western Japan to extant Tokyo-based and national-level scholarshipGives an account of regional difference in cinema-going and film-viewing in JapanCombining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers.Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant observation, questionnaire surveys, and written communications with over 100 study participants in the Kansai region of Western Japan. This is an in-depth study of memories of cinema-going among the generations who regularly attended film theatres between 1945-1968, the peak period of production and cinema attendance in Japan. Through investigating the role of film viewership, broadly conceived, in the formation of a postwar sense of self, the reader will benefit from rare access to the voices of grass-roots viewers, who often tell a different version of cinema history and its effects than that available in extant scholarship.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Note on the Romanisation of Japanese Words -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Feelings without Words -- CHAPTER 1 What Do We Talk About when We Talk About Cinema? -- CHAPTER 2 The Cinema as a Place to Be -- CHAPTER 3 Times Past and Passing Time at the Cinema -- CHAPTER 4 Stars, Occupiers, Parents and Role Models: Cinema as a Way of Being (Japanese) -- CHAPTER 5 Gender Trouble at the Cinema -- CHAPTER 6 Organised Audiences and Committed Fans: Cinema, Viewership, Activism -- CHAPTER 7 Crafting the Self through Cinema Culture -- Conclusion: Giving an Account of Oneself through Talking About Cinema -- Bibliography -- Index