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  • Le Samouraï

    by Daisuke Miyao ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    In this compelling study, Daisuke Miyao explores Jean-Pierre Melville's cult 1967 thriller Le Samouraï, a film that unfolds in a coolly stylised Paris where the paths of a contract killer, Jef Costello (Alain Delon), and the police commissaire pursuing him (François Périer) fatally intersect.Despite its title, Le Samouraï, is not a sword-clashing tale of feudal Japan. Rather, Miyao suggests that ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

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  • Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema

    by Daisuke Miyao ...
    In Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Daisuke Miyao explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, Miyao contends that more than being documents of everyday life, they provided a medium for experimenting with aesthetic and cinematic ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Sessue Hayakawa

    Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom

    by Daisuke Miyao ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886–1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks. In this critical study of Hayakawa’s stardom, Daisuke Miyao reconstructs the Japanese ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Transnational Cinematography Studies

    by Lindsay Coleman, Daisuke Miyao, Roberto Schaefer, Ceri Higgins, Patrick Keating, Evan Lieberman, Jakob Isak Nielsen, Peter H. Rist0, Carlos Rojas1, Julie Turnock2 ...
    Transnational Cinematography Studies introduces new perspectives to the discipline of film and media studies. First, this volume focuses on a crucial yet largely unexplored area in film and media studies: the substantial communication between critical studies of cinema and film production practices. This book integrates theories and practices of cinematographic technology. Secondly, Transnational ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Shadow

    Lighting and Japanese Cinema

    by Daisuke Miyao ...
    In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion became naturalized as the representation of beauty in Japanese films, situating Japanese cinema within ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    by Sumita S. Chakravarty ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ... Read more

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  • Kurosawa

    Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

    by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society
    The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors

    From the Silent Era to the Present Day

    by Alexander Jacoby ...
    A comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film.This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching.Included are artistic profiles of everyone ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Flash of Capital

    Film and Geopolitics in Japan

    by Eric Cazdyn, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan’s capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, Eric Cazdyn theorizes a cultural history that highlights the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders—where culture and capital ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Japanese Cinema

    Texts and Contexts

    Edited by Alastair Phillips, Julian Stringer ...
    Japanese Cinema includes twenty-four chapters on key films of Japanese cinema, from the silent era to the present day, providing a comprehensive introduction to Japanese cinema history and Japanese culture and society.Studying a range of important films, from Late Spring, Seven Samurai and In the Realm of the Senses to Godzilla, Hana-Bi and Ring, the collection includes discussion of all the major ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Paradoxical Japaneseness

    Cultural Representation in 21st Century Japanese Cinema

    by Andrew Dorman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese cinema of the early 21st century. The impact of transnational production practices on films such as Dolls (2002), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), and 13 Assassins (2010) is considered through textual and empirical analysis. The author discusses contradictory forms of cultural representation – ... Read more

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  • Japanese Cinema Goes Global

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Japan’s film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unprecedented engagement with global trends. With careful research and also unique first-person observations drawn from years of working within the international industry of Japanese film, the author aims to examine how different generations of Japanese ... Read more

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