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Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode
Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a true documentary tradition due to the apparent preference of Japanese audiences for stylisation over realism, a preference that originated from its theatrical tradition. However, a closer look at the history of Japanese documentary and feature film production reveals an emphasis on actuality and everyday life as a major part of Japanese film culture. That 'documentary mode' – crossing genre and mediu...
A Companion to Japanese Cinema
Go beyond Kurosawa and discover an up-to-date and rigorous examination of historical and modern Japanese cinema In A Companion to Japanese Cinema, distinguished cinematic researcher David Desser delivers insightful new material on a fascinating subject, ranging from the introduction and exploration of under-appreciated directors, like Uchida Tomu and Yoshimura Kozaburo, to an appreciation of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema from the point of view of little-known stars and genres of the 1950s. This Companion includes new resources that deal in-depth with the issue of gender in Japanese cinema, including a sustained analysis of Kawase Naomi, arguably the most important female director in Japa...
Persistently Postwar
From melodramas to experimental documentaries to anime, mass media in Japan constitute a key site in which the nation’s social memory is articulated, disseminated, and contested. Through a series of stimulating case studies, this volume examines the political and cultural representations of Japan’s past, showing how they have reinforced personal and collective narratives while also formulating new cultural meanings, both on a local scale and in the context of transnational media production and consumption. Drawing upon diverse disciplinary insights and methodologies, these studies collectively offer a nuanced account in which mass media function as much more than a simple ideological tool.
Korean Film and History
Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made – a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of historical events in film straddle reality and fantasy, documentary and fiction, representation and performance, entertainment and education. This interdisciplinary book examines the relationship between film and history and the links between historical research and filmic (re-)presentations of history with special reference to South Korean cinema. As with all national film industries, Korean cinema functions as a medium of inventing national history, identity, and also establishing their legitimacy – both in forgetting the past and remembe...
Japanese Transnational Cinema
The aim of this Special Issue lies in expanding contemporary discussions on Japanese Cinema and its transnational aspects by applying new critical methodologies and stances and in revealing the contradictions inherent in the way the old paradigm of 'National Cinema' has traditionally been articulated. In order to do so, this publication highlights the limitations of assessing Japanese film as a cinematic phenomenon confined to its national borders. Throughout this issue, the concept of transnationality is not confined to a single definition and is instead used as an analytical framework which allow authors to surpass narrow perspectives that neglect the complex nature of Japanese film in ter...
The Everyday in Visual Culture
This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our understanding of everyday life in homes and cities around the globe. Investigating the multiple facets of the everyday, this interdisciplinary collection generates a new awareness of everyday lives across cultures and challenges our traditional understanding of the everyday by interweaving new thematic connections. It brings together debates around the analysis of the everyday in visual culture more broadly and explores the creation of innovative technological methods for comparative approaches to the study of the everyday, such as film databases...
Japan in the 1960s
Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. From street battles over Japan’s security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former Japanese territory of South Korea, to Japan’s hosting the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1960s in Japan was a decade of turning points. This book is the first to see the 1960s as a historical subject in its own right and argues that the specificity and internal complexity rooted in East Asia during this period showed how East Asians were dynamic agents in shaping the decade. In this volume, contributors consider Japanese responses to a 1961 cou...
Yasujirō Ozu und die Ästhetik seiner Zeit
Die Beiträge dieses zweisprachigen Bandes ordnen die Ästhetik von Yasujirō Ozus Filmen in die seiner Zeitgenossen ein. Dabei rückt der Blick auf die zahlreichen Resonanzen und Synchronismen zwischen Ozu und dem globalen Film. Ozu und der Westen, das sind schon in den 1920er Jahren keine bloßen Gegensätze, sondern sich überlagernde Felder. Ozu entkontextualisiert Darstellungselemente des westlichen Films, kombiniert sie, reißt sie mitunter aus dem Zusammenhang und ordnet sie um, erfindet sie neu. Mit Beiträgen von Kayo Adachi-Rabe, Andreas Becker, Marcos P. Centeno Martín, Kerstin Fooken, Simon Frisch, Woojeong Joo, Stefanie Kreuzer und Jörg Schweinitz.
Vint anys de Periodisme a la Universitat de València
La implantació de la titulació de Periodisme a la Universitat de València no va ser una comesa fàcil, però un pla d’estudis innovador –fins i tot experimental– i un equip docent competent ho va fer possible amb escreix. Els estudis combinaven la tradició del periodisme de qualitat amb algunes noves tendències, com el periodisme científic i tecnològic, el periodisme digital o el periodisme d’investigació i precisió. Quant al professorat, estava integrat per acadèmics i professionals dels principals mitjans de comunicació valencians. En l’actual ecosistema comunicatiu, era tot un repte formar periodistes graduats altament professionals que, més enllà de les teories i les habilitats tècniques, entengueren la informació com un bé públic i el periodisme com un instrument imprescindible per a una democràcia deliberativa i sostenible. Aquest recull de textos constitueix una polifonia testimonial de la gran majoria del professorat que, al llarg d’aquests primers vint anys, ha fet possible aquesta interessant i engrescadora experiència de docència i formació per a periodistes.
