Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film by Darrell William Davis

Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film

Film and Culture Series

Darrell William Davis

352 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, ...

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