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Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History
Scott Nygren
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Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 208 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 256.
Until 1951, when Kurosawa’s Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be ignored.In Time Frames, Scott Nygren explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written both within and beyond Japan, before and after Rashomon. He takes up the central question of which, and whose, Japan do critics and historians mean when reviewing the country’s cinema—an issue complicated by assumptions about cultural purity, Japan’s appropriation of Western ideas and ... Read more
Until 1951, when Kurosawa’s Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be ignored.In Time Frames, Scott Nygren explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written both within and beyond Japan, before and after Rashomon. He takes up the central question of which, and whose, Japan do critics and historians mean when reviewing the country’s cinema—an issue complicated by assumptions about cultural purity, Japan’s appropriation of Western ideas and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647088
SKU
V9780816647088
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