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Informationen zum Autor Eric Cazdyn is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Film, and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Klappentext "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" Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Acknowledgments>Introduction>I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital>III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic>IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur>V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History>VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics>Epilogue Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Cazdyn, Eric Cazdyn
• Assisted by: Rey Chow (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2002
• EAN: 9780822329398
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2939-8
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 225 mm x 22 mm
• 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; Japan, Film, Kino, Fernsehen, TV