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, Kagemusha, and Ran.
| ISBN: | 9780231102315 |
| Publication date: | 14th March 1996 |
| Author: | Darrell William Davis |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Film and Culture Series |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Nationalism International relations |
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, Kagemusha, and Ran.
Picturing Japaneseness features in the following genres: Cultural studies, Nationalism, International relations
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Picturing Japaneseness was written by Darrell William Davis and published by Columbia University Press
Picturing Japaneseness has 352 pages
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