Japanese Cinema Between Frames

This book explores the rich complexity of Japan's film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology. Focusing on techniques that draw attention to the interval between frames on the filmstrip, something that is generally obscured in narrative film, Lee uncovers a chief mechanism by which, from its earliest period, the medium has capitalized on its materiality to instantiate its contemporaneity. In doing so, cinema has bound itself tightly with adjacent visual forms such as anime and manga to redefine itself across its history of interaction with new media, including television, video, and digital formats. Japanese Cinema Between Frames is a bold examination of Japanese film aesthetics that reframes the nation's cinema history, illuminating processes that have both contributed to the unique texture of Japanese films and yoked the nation's cinema to the global sphere of film history.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Modern Vitality: Pure Film and the Cinematic.- 3. Still Dynamic: Image and Seriality at the Dawn of Television.- 4. Animating the Image: Patch Work and Video Interactivity.- 5. Film in the Composite Image: Cinema at the Digital Turn.- 6. Conclusion.

About the author

Laura Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, USA.

Summary

Provides a theoretically-rich treatment of Japan’s historical new media contexts
Focuses on films that are widely known and easily accessible

Emphasizes the importance of global film culture to the constitution of local film practices, while simultaneously underscoring the relevance that these practices hold for theoretical discussions pertinent to film studies

Product details

• Authors: Laura Lee
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319882284
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988228-4
• No. of pages: 177
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 10 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 253 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 177 p. 40 illus., 16 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; B, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Film Theory, Films, cinema, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Motion pictures, Film history, theory & criticism, Motion pictures—Asia, Asian Film and TV, Asian Cinema and TV, Close Reading, Close Readings in Film and TV, Global Cinema and TV, Global Film and TV