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  • Urban Dynamics and Urban Externalities

    by Y. Kanemoto, T. Miyao ...
    This title combines reviews of two of the most important branches of urban economics: dynamics and externalities. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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    Dream Minding

    The Secret Language of Sleep

    by Annie Armstrong Miyao ...
    Narrated by Annie Armstrong Miyao ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    A renowned psychotherapist’s fascinating guide to using your dreams as an inner resource to find a more fulfilling lifeIn her practice, psychotherapist Annie Armstrong Miyao sees patients who are feeling lost. Some face anxiety, drastic life shifts, looming decisions, or trauma, others simply want to better understand themselves. They look to her for solutions. Through working with her patients, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • Dream Minding

    The Secret Language of Sleep

    by Annie Armstrong Miyao ...
    A renowned psychotherapist’s fascinating guide to using your dreams as an inner resource to find a more fulfilling lifeIn her practice, psychotherapist Annie Armstrong Miyao sees patients who are feeling lost. Some face anxiety, drastic life shifts, looming decisions, or trauma, others simply want to better understand themselves. They look to her for solutions. Through working with her patients, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stereopsis and Hygiene

    Edited by Hiroki Takada, Masaru Miyao, Sina Fateh ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book outlines the principle and display methods of stereopsis, the biological effects of image viewing, and the effects on the human body, as well as its clinical significance. The authors also present the latest research findings and future prospects for stereopsis methods. In the field of medical care, the technique is useful for the 3-dimensional identification of lesions and affected ... Read more

    $89.09 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

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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

    $11.59 USD