Tanaka Kinuyo : : Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity / / Irene González-López, Michael Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: González-López, Irene,; Smith, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Armendáriz-Hernández, Alejandra,; González-López, Irene,; Jacoby, Alexander,; Kanno, Yuka,; Kaoru, Furukawa,; Kitsnik, Lauri,; Mayu, Ashida,; Saito, Ayako,; Smith, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film : ESEAF
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 40 B/W illustrations

The first book in English dedicated to the actor and director Tanaka KinuyoPraised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka’s career spanned the industrial development of cinema – from silent to sound, monochrome to colour. Alongside featuring in films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa, Tanaka was also the only Japanese woman filmmaker between 1953 and 1962, and her films tackled distinctly feminine topics such as prostitution and breast cancer. Her career overlapped with a transformative period in Japanese history, and this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives, subjectivities and modes of analysis for the classical era of Japanese cinema.Key FeaturesA unique look at the life and career of Tanaka Kinuyo, as both an actor and directorOffers a new perspective on the history of women and film in JapanBrings together a range of Japanese and western scholars

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Light and Shadows in the Life of Tanaka Kinuyo -- Introduction: Onna Monogatari -- 1 Dancer, Doctor, Maiden, Mother: Tanaka Kinuyo’s Early Star Image -- 2 Meetings and Partings: How Tanaka’s Films End -- 3 Tanaka and Mizoguchi: Politics and Rebellion in the Early Post-war Era -- 4 The First Female Gaze at Post-war Japanese Women: Tanaka Kinuyo, Film Director -- 5 Kinuyo and Sumie: When Women Write and Direct -- 6 Female Authorship, Subjectivity and Colonial Memory in Tanaka Kinuyo’s The Wandering Princess (1960) -- 7 Panpan Girls, Lesbians and Post-war Women’s Communities: Girls of Dark (1961) as Women’s Cinema -- Index