Picturing Japaneseness

Picturing Japaneseness Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film - Film and Culture Series

Paperback (14 Mar 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780231102315
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 352 .
Weight: 454g
Height: 235mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 19mm