Cinema of Naruse Mikio - Women and Japanese Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Russell is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University. She is the author of Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video, also published by Duke University Press, and Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas. Klappentext The first English-language book dedicated to an analysis of Naruse Mikio, one of Japan's most prolific directors, whose films provide unique insight into the representation of female subjectivity and modernity in Japan. Zusammenfassung One of the most prolific and respected directors of the Japanese cinema! Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. This book illuminates Naruse's contributions to Japanese and world cinema. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction: The Auteur as Salaryman 1 1. The Silent Films: Women in the City, 1930-1934 39 2. Naruse as P.C.L.: Toward a Japanese Classical Cinema, 1935-1937 81 3. Not a Monumental Cinema: Wartime Vernacular, 1938-1945 131 4. The Occupation Years: Cinema, Democracy, and Japanese Kitsch, 1945-1952 167 5. The Japanese Woman's Film of the 1950s, 1952-1958 226 6. Naruse in the 1960s: Stranded in Modernity, 1958-1967 315 Conclusion 398 Notes 405 Filmography 431 Bibliography 435 Index 447

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Russell, Russell, Catherine Russell
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2008
• EAN: 9780822342908
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4290-8
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, einzelne Regisseure, Filmemacher, 1950 bis 1959 n. Chr., 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Zwischen den Weltkriegen (1919 bis 1939 n. Chr.), Fernsehen, TV