| Description |
1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Contemporary film and television series |
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Contemporary film and television series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Developing Images, Defining Words -- First, the Story -- The Benshi Intervenes -- A Word about Genre -- Drawing a Map -- Women in the Chain Drama -- 2. Kaeriyama Norimasa and The Glory of Life |
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The First Writers Observe to Learn -- Aspects of Pure Film -- Smoke and Mirrors? -- 3. Reformation in Transition: Toyo Films and the Founding of Taikatsu -- Urbanization, Foreign Influence, Political Change |
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Foreign Film in Close-Up: Mori Iwao's A Survey of the Moving Pictures, 1919-1920 Kurihara's Toyo Films and the Founding of Taikatsu -- Challenging Borders -- 4. The Literary Link: Screenwriter Tanizaki Jun'ichiro -- Tanizaki and the Screen |
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A New Voice and a Million Allies for Reform Tanizaki' s Taikatsu Film S cripts -- After Taikatsu -- 5. Journalistic Discourse and Tanizaki's The Present and Future of the Moving Pictures -- Film Journalism and the Pure Film Movement, 1913-1917 |
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The Gap Widens: Foreign Imports and the Domestic Film Debate The Intellectual Contribution -- The Present and Future of the Moving Pictures -- 6. Mayhem, Mischief, and a Certain Esprit de Corps: Amateur Club -- The Vitality and Vigor of Youth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-343) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Silent films -- Japan -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- Japan -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Silent films
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814340097 |
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0814340091 |
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9780814329269 |
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0814329268 |
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