Książki

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date.
Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics such as ecology, spectatorship, home-movies, colonial history and relations with Hollywood and Europe, The Japanese Cinema Book presents a set of new, and often surprising, perspectives on Japanese film.
With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise of established and emerging scholars and critics, The Japanese Cinema Book provides a groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a local, regional, national, transnational and global phenomenon.
The book's innovative structure combines general surveys of a particular historical topic or critical approach with various micro-level case studies. It argues there is no single fixed Japanese cinema, but instead a fluid and varied field of Japanese filmmaking cultures that continue to exist in a dynamic relationship with other cinemas, media and regions.
The Japanese Cinema Book is divided into seven inter-related sections:
* Theories and Approaches
* * Institutions and Industry
* * Film Style
* * Genre
* * Times and Spaces of Representation
* * Social Contexts
* * Flows and Interactions I'd recommend most of this book to anyone, but two chapters in particular [about manga adaptations in Japanese cinema] will leap out at readers of this blog. * All the Anime blog * With its preponderance of Japanese authors and the impressive variety of approaches it models, this volume marks a new era in the study of Japanese cinema. It presents new spins on old topics, and opens up any number of new avenues of inquiry. I can think of no other book that reveals the sheer richness of Japanese cinema to this degree. The Japanese Cinema Book is, simply, superb. -- Markus Nornes, Professor of Asian Cinema Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, USA Fujiki and Phillips' edited collection of wide-ranging essays represents a timely intervention into the field of Japanese cinema studies by a diverse group of international scholars. Its breadth and coverage will ensure it assumes a prominent position as a standard text within the field. -- Isolde Standish PhD Emeritus Reader in Film and Media Studies SOAS, University of London, UK.

The Japanese Cinema Book

TABLE OF CONTENTS



Acknowledgments



Introduction

Japanese Cinema and Its Multiple Perspectives

Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University, Japan) and Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick, UK)



Part One: Theories and Approaches



1. Early Cinema

Difference, Definition and Japanese Film Studies

Aaron Gerow (Yale University, USA)



2. Authorship

Author, Sakka, Auteur

Alex Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University, UK)



3. Spectatorship

The Spectator as Subject and Agent

Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University, Japan)



4. Film Criticism

Soviet Montage Theory and Japanese Film Criticism

Naoki Yamamoto (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)



5. Narrative

Multi-viewpoint Narrative: From Rashomon (1950) to Confessions (2010)

Kosuke Kinoshita (Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Japan)



6. Gender and Sexuality

Feminist Film Scholarships: Dialogue and Diversification

Hikari Hori (Toyo University, Japan)





Part Two: Institutions and Industry



7. The Studio System

The Japanese Studio System Revisited

Hiroyuki Kitaura (Kaichi International University, Japan)



8. Exhibition

Screening Spaces: A History of Japanese Film Exhibition

Manabu Ueda (Kobe Gakuin University, Japan)



9. Censorship

Censorship as Education: Film Violence and Ideology

Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA)



10. Technology

Sound and Intermediality in 1930s Japanese Cinema

Johan Nordstroem (Tsuru University, Japan)



11. Film Festivals

Engasai Inside Out: Japanese Cinema and Film Festival Programming

Ran Ma (Nagoya University, Japan)



12. Stardom

Queer Resonance: The Stardom of Miwa Akihiro

Yuka Kanno (Doshisha University, Japan)



13. Experimental Cinema

Forms, Spaces and Networks: A History of Japanese Experimental Film

Julian Ross (Leiden University, The Netherlands)



14. Transmedial Relations

Manga at the Movies: Adaptation and Intertextuality

Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK)



15. The Archive

Screening Locality: Japanese Home Movies and the Politics of Place

Oliver Dew (UK)





Part Three: Film Style



16. Cinematography

The Trans-pacific Work of Japanese Cinematographers

Daisuke Miyao (University of California, San Diego, USA)



17. Acting

Spectral Bodies: Matsui Sumako and Tanaka Kinuyo in The Love of Sumako the Actress (1947)

Chika Kinoshita (Kyoto University, Japan)



18. Set Design

Colour and Excess in Undercurrent (1956)

Fumiaki Itakura (Kobe University, Japan)



19. Music

When the Music Exits the Screen: Sound and Image in Japanese Sword Fight Films

Yuna Tasaka (Belgium)





Part Four: Genre



20. Period Drama

The Duplicitous Topos of Jidaigeki

Philip Kaffen (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)



21. The Horror Film

The Ghosts of Kaiki Eiga

Michael E. Crandol (Leiden University, The Netherlands)



22. Anime

Compositing and Switching: An Intermedial History of Japanese Anime

Thomas Lamarre (McGill University, Canada)



23. Melodrama

Melodrama, Modernity and Displacement: That Night's Wife (1930)

Ryoko Misono (with Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips)



24. The Musical

Heibon and the Popular Song Film

Michael Raine (Western University, Canada)



25. The Yakuza Film

The Yakuza Film: A Genre 'Endorsed by the People'

Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield, UK)



26. Documentary

'Filling Our Empty Hands': Ogawa Productions and the Politics of Subjectivity

Ayumi Hata (Japan)





Part Five: Time and Spaces of Representation



27. Ecology

Toxic Interdependencies: 3/11 Cinema

Rachel DiNitto (University of Oregon, USA)



28. Rural Landscape

The Cinematic Countryside in Japanese Wartime Filmmaking

Sharon Hayashi (York University, Canada)



29. The Home

Separations and Connections: The Cinematic Homes of the Showa 30s

Woojeong Joo (Nagoya University, Japan)



30. The City

Tokyo 1958

Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick, UK)



Part Six: Social Contexts



31. Empire

Cinematic Dualities: Shanghai Filmmaking in the Era of the Japanese Occupation

Ni Yan (Japan Institute of Moving Image, Japan)



32. The Occupation

Pedagogies of Modernity: CIE and USIS Films about the United Nations

Yuka Tsuchiya (Kyoto University, Japan)



33. Social Protest

Japanese Student Movement Cinema: A Dialogic Approach

Masato Dogase (Nagoya University, Japan)



34. Minority Cultures

Whose Song Is It? Korean and Women's Voice in Oshima Nagisa's Sing a Song of Sex (1967)

Mika Ko (Hosei University, Japan)



35. Globalisation

Japanese Cultural Globalisation at the Margins

Cobus van Staden (South African Institute of International Affairs, South Africa)





Part Seven: Flows and Interactions



36. Japanese Cinema and its Post-Colonial Histories

Technologies of Co-production: Japan in Asia and the Cold War Production of Regional Place

Stephanie DeBoer (Indiana University, USA)



37. Japanese Cinema and Hollywood

Frontiers of Nostalgia: The Japanese Western in the Postwar Era

Hiroshi Kitamura (College of William and Mary, USA)



38. Japanese Cinema and its Peripheries

Japan and Okinawa and the Politics of Exchange

Andrew Dorman (UK)



39. Japanese Cinema and Europe

A Constellation of Gazes: Europe and the Japanese Film Industry

Yoshiharu Tezuka (Komazawa University, Japan)



40. Transnational Remakes and Adaptations

Casablanca Karaoke: The Program Picture as Marginal Art in 1960s Japan

Ryan Cook (Emory University, USA)



Select Bibliography



Index