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Author Nygren, Scott.

Title Time frames : Japanese cinema and the unfolding of history / Scott Nygren
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 297 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Thresholds; 2 Dislocations; 3 Incisions; 4 Kyoto/Venezia; 5 Reconsidering Humanism; 6 International Modernism; 7 Postmodern Networks; EPILOGUE: Next; APPENDIX: Japanese Networked History: A Metachronology of Culturally Significant Events in Relation to Film; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Distribution Information; Index
Summary Time Frames explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written before and after Rashomon. Scott Nygren looks at the emergence of video art and anime, highlighting the creative exchange among North American, European, and Asian media. He places Japanese film at the center of this discourse, and, ultimately, reveals its global role as a cultural medium
Bibliography Includes filmography: pages 283-286
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index
Notes English
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Subject Motion pictures -- Japan -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
Japan
Genre/Form Drama
History
Drama.
Théâtre.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006033998
ISBN 9780816697977
0816697973