The Flash of Capital - Film and Geopolitics in Japan

"Cazdyn's work is original, unique, and provocative. He asks hard questions, makes surprising connections, and as a result forces us to rethink the relationship of the aesthetic and the social in Japanese modernity."--Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, author of "Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema"

List of contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation

II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital
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III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic
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IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur
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V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History
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VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics
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Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

About the author

Eric Cazdyn

Summary

Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, this title theorizes a cultural history that illuminates the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders, where culture and capital crisscross - and in doing so, develops a new way of understanding historical change and transformation in modern Japan and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Cazdyn, Eric Cazdyn
• Assisted by: Rey Chow (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2002
• EAN: 9780822329121
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2912-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 238 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism