What is the aesthetics of shadow? -- Lighting and capitalist-industrial modernity : Shochiku and Hollywood -- Flashes of the sword and the star : Shochiku and Jidaigeki -- Street films : Shochiku and Germany -- The aesthetics of shadow : Shochiku, Toho, and Japan -- The cinematography of Miyagawa Kazuo
Summary
By exploring the ""aesthetics of shadow"" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Daisuke Miyao reinterprets Japanese film history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-364) and index
