Cinema Is a Cat by Daisuke Miyao

Cinema Is a Cat by Daisuke Miyao

Watching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. In Cinema Is a Cat, Miyao uses the fascinating relationship between cats and cinema to offer a uniquely appealing introduction to film studies.

Miyao skillfully combines cats and cinema not simply to open up his enjoyable account of some of the basic approaches to film studies to a broader audience, but also to explore the cat-like—to Miyao "phantomlike"—nature of the movie mediumSome say "the internet is made of cats," but in some ways, so is the cinema, a continuity which enables Miyao to engagingly elucidate the past, present, and future of film in a new mediated world. Cinema Is a Cat is one of the most original and creative introductory volumes to cinema studies. Accessible, clearly written, and with spot-on examples, it covers the core themes of the discipline in a smart and witty way. It will surely satisfy students of film—and cat lovers—both in the classroom and out.

Daisuke Miyao is professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

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ISBN 13	9780824879709
ISBN 10	0824879708
Title	Cinema Is a Cat
Author	Daisuke Miyao
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Hawai'i Press
Year published	2019-11-30
Number of pages	200
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