| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) illustrations |
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Introduction : realism, film theory, Japanese cinema -- Naturalism and the modernization of Japanese cinema -- Machine aesthetics and proletarian realism -- Literary adaptation and textual realism -- Documentary film and epistemological realism -- The neglected tradition of Bergsonism and phenomenology -- Epilogue : Hanada Kiyoteru and postwar debates |
| Summary |
Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Japan -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
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Film criticism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures -- Japan -- Aesthetics -- History -- 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Film criticism
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520975903 |
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0520975901 |
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