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Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

Russell, Catherine

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Film Studies

ISBN10: 1441133275
ISBN13: 9781441133274
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 16 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960.
Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide new insights on class and gender dynamics. Russell locates Japanese cinema within a global system of reception, and she highlights the importance of the industrial production context of these films.

Including studies of landmark films by Ozu, Kurosawa and other directors, this book provides a perfect introduction to a crucial and often misunderstood area of Japanese cultural output. With a critical approach that highlights the everydayness of Japanese studio-era cinema, Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.

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