The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema aims to counter this trend toward dichotomizing the West and Japan and to challenge the pervasive culturalism of today's film and media studies.
Featuring twenty essays, each authored by a leading researcher in the field, this volume addresses productive debates about where Japanese cinema is and where Japanese cinema is going at the period of crisis of national boundary under globalization. It reevaluates the position of Japanese cinema within the discipline of cinema and media studies and beyond, and situates Japanese cinema within the broader fields of transnational film history. Likewise, it examines the materiality of Japanese cinema, scrutinizes cinema's relationship to other media, and identifies the specific practices of film production and reception. As a whole, the volume fosters a dialogue between Japanese scholars of Japanese cinema, film scholars of Japanese cinema based in Anglo-American and European countries, film scholars of non-Japanese cinema, film archivists, film critics, and filmmakers familiar with film scholarship.
A comprehensive volume that grasps Japanese cinema under the rubric of the global and also fills the gap between Japanese and non-Japanese film studies and between theories and practices, The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema challenges and responds to the major developments underfoot in this rapidly changing field.
Author(s): Daisuke Miyao
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 496
City: New York, NY
Tags: History Criticism Movies Humor Entertainment Industry Japan Asia Humanities
List of Contributors i x
Introduction 1
Daisuke Miyao
PART I WHAT IS JAPANESE CINEMA STUDIES?: JAPANESE CINEMA AND CINEMA STUDIES
1. Japanese Film without Japan: Toward a Nondisciplined
Film Studies 13
Eric Cazdyn
2. Triangulating Japanese Film Style 33
Ben Singer
3. Critical Reception: Historical Conceptions of Japanese Film
Criticism 61
Aaron Gerow
4. Creating the Audience: Cinema as Popular Recreation and
Social Education in Modern Japan 79
Hideaki Fujiki
PART II WHAT IS JAPANESE CINEMA?:
JAPANESE CINEMA AND THE
TRANSNATIONAL NETWORK
5. Adaptation as “Transcultural Mimesis” in Japanese Cinema 101
Michael Raine
6. The Edge of Montage: A Case of Modernism/ Modanizumu in
Japanese Cinema 124
Chika Kinoshita
7. Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: The Formation of Female Stars in
Japanese Cinema 152
Daisuke Miyao
8. Performing Colonial Identity: Byeonsa, Colonial Film Spectatorship,
and the Formation of National Cinema in Korea under Japanese
Colonial Rule 172
Dong Hoon Kim
9. Outpost of Hybridity: Paramount’s Campaign in Japan, 1952–1962 188
Hiroshi Kitamura
10. Erasing China in Japan’s “Hong Kong Films” 209
Kwai-Cheung Lo
11. The Emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan’s
Reentrance to the Regional Film Industry in the 1950s 226
Sangjoon Lee
12. Yamagata–Asia–Europe: The International Film Festival
Short Circuit 245
Abé Mark Nornes
PART III WHAT JAPANESE CINEMA IS!:
JAPANESE CINEMA AND THE
INTERMEDIAL PRACTICES
13. Nitrate Film Production in Japan: A Historical Background of the
Early Days 265
Hidenori Okada (Translated by Ayako Saito and
Daisuke Miyao)
14. Sketches of Silent Film Sound in Japan: Theatrical Functions of
Ballyhoo, Orchestras and Kabuki Ensembles 288
Shuhei Hosokawa
15. The Jidaigeki Film: Twilight Samurai —A Salaryman–Producer’s
Point of View 306
Ichiro Yamamoto (Translated by Diane Wei Lewis)
16. Occupation and Memory: The Representation of Woman's Body in
Postwar Japanese Cinema 327
Ayako Saito
17. Reading Nishijin (1961) as Cinematic Memory 363
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
18. By Other Hands: Environment and Apparatus in 1960s Intermedia 383
Miryam Sas
19. Viral Contagion in the Ringu Intertext 416
Carlos Rojas
20. Media Mix and the Metaphoric Economy of World 438
Alexander Zahlten
Index 457
