Powers of the Real - Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan

Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the "age of the mass society" in Japan.

Summary

Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the “age of the mass society” in Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Wei Lewis
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780674241152
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24115-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Medienwissenschaften, Fernsehen, TV