ISBN: 9780826417091

Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major internati… Plus…

Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denkikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within thirteen years three hundred cinemas had sprung up throughout the country. In A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film, Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanese film. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation. Adopting a thematic, exploratory approach, Standish links the concept of Japanese cinema as a system of communication with some of the central discourses of the twentieth century: modernism, nationalism, humanism, resistance, and gender. Media > Book, [PU: Continuum]<

2005, ISBN: 0826417094

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[EAN: 9780826417091], [SC: 20.67], [PU: Continuum, London & New York], ASIAFILMCINEMAJAPAN, Jacket, 8vo. pp 414. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's orange cloth with bla… Plus…

[EAN: 9780826417091], [SC: 20.67], [PU: Continuum, London & New York], ASIAFILMCINEMAJAPAN, Jacket, 8vo. pp 414. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's orange cloth with black lettering at spine. Illustrated with colour plates.ISBN: 0826417094 Rear flyleaf has a small tear at the top, else clean and bright. Near fine in lightly marked, very good+ dust jacket., Books<