The Japanese Film by Joseph L Anderson
Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film. Now back in print with updated sections, major revaluations, a comprehensive international bibliography, and an exceptional collection of 168 stills ranging over eight decades, this book remains the unchallenged reference for all who seek a broad understanding of the aesthetic, historical, and economic elements of motion pictures from Japan.
"[F]ar and away the most important text in its field, and the additions to the pioneering work have greatly increased its value"--Audie Bock, Film Quarterly
Edward Seidensticker, 1921-2007, was a distinguished translator and scholar who was responsible for introducing the works of a number of important modern Japanese novelists to the English-speaking world. At the time of the writing of this book, he was spending half of the year in New York where he was Professor of Japanese at Columbia University and half of the year in Tokyo. Donald Richie, novelist, essayist, journalist, and film scholar, was born in Lima, Ohio, in 1924, but has spent most of the last sixty years (except for time at Columbia University in the early 1950s and as curator of film at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1968-73) witnessing and reporting on the transformation of Japan from postwar devastation to twenty-first century economic and cultural powerhouse. He is the author of some forty books of fiction and non-fiction, dozens of speeches and essays, and hundreds of book, film, and arts reviews. Recent collections include The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan (2001) and Japan Journals 1947-2004 (2004), based on his detailed record of his life in Japan. He still lives and writes in Tokyo. Paul Waley is a geographer at the University of Leeds in Britain who spent many years living in Japan where he worked as an editor, translator and writer. During that period he wrote a historical guidebook to Tokyo, Tokyo Now and Then, later republished in revised form as Tokyo, City of Stories. He visits Tokyo regularly, researching and writing both on the history of the city and on Tokyo's changing dynamics in contemporary Japan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691007922 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691007926 |
| Title | The Japanese Film |
| Author | Joseph L Anderson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1983-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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