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In
Making Audiences, author Hideaki Fujiki offers a social history of a century of Japanese cinema and considers the relationships between audience, collectivity, and belonging.
List of contents
- Introduction
- PART I: THE PEOPLE
- Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Social Subject: "The People" and the Cinema Audience through Popular Entertainment and Social Education
- PART II: THE NATIONAL POPULACE
- Chapter 2: Total War and Transmedia Consumer Culture: The Re-definition and Contradictions of "the National Populace"
- Chapter 3: Mobilizing Individuals into "the National Populace": The Cinema Audience from Total War to Postwar
- PART III: EAST ASIAN RACE
- Chapter 4: Inventing "the East Asian Race:" The Fantasy of the Japanese Empire and Its Mobilization through Cinema
- PART IV: THE MASSES
- Chapter 5: The Politics of "the Masses" in the Televisual and Atomic Age: Theories of Mass Society, Mass Culture, and Mass Communication
- Chapter 6: "The Masses" as Democratic Subjects: Cinema Audiences and the Reassembling of Transmedia Consumer Culture through Television
- PART V: CITIZENS
- Chapter 7: "Citizens" as Vulnerable Subjects: Individualizing and Networking in the Postwar Period and the Age of Risk
- Chapter 8: The Porous Intimate-Public Sphere of "Citizens": Transmedia Social Movement through Independent Film Screening Events and Social Media
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Hideaki Fujiki is Professor of Screen Studies at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan. His other publications include Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan (2013) and The Japanese Cinema Book, co-edited with Alastair Phillips (2020).
Summary
In Making Audiences, author Hideaki Fujiki offers a social history of a century of Japanese cinema and considers the relationships between audience, collectivity, and belonging.
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Making Audiences is an invaluable contribution to several fields - including sociology, history, Japanese studies, and film and media studies -as well as to overarching theoretical approaches to the study of historiography and nationalism.
