Aesthetics of Shadow - Lighting and Japanese Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Daisuke Miyao Klappentext Daisuke Miyao is Associate Professor of Japanese Film/Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, also published by Duke University Press.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. What is the Aesthetics of Shadow? 1 1. Lighting and Capitalist-Industrial Modernity: Shochiku and Hollywood 15 2. Flashes of the Sword and the Star: Shochiku and Jidaigeki 67 3. Street Films: Shochiku and Germany 119 4. The Aesthetics of Shadow: Shochiku, Tohu, and Japan 173 Conclusion. The Cinematography of Miyagawa Kazuo 255 Notes 283 Bibliography 329 Index 365

Product details

• Authors: Daisuke Miyao, Miyao Daisuke
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2013
• EAN: 9780822354222
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5422-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous