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'Devastated by the 1923 earthquake, Tokyo re-built itself in symbiosis with an image of modernity concocted by its own film studios. Nippon Modern renders that image, aspect after fascinating aspect, in sharp detail. Scores of films make up that image, a few resurrected in this volume for intense and delightful analysis. A sensitive viewer and an honest resourceful historian, Wada-Marciano lays out what she's found in relation to other studies of this precious period, and she does so without hyperbole and without a glaring agenda. She makes you understand how, after Tokyo would again be devastated in 1945, these ‘modern'films could become objects of nostalgia. Such is the care she gives her subject and such the fragility of that subject.'—Dudley Andrew, Yale University'Nippon Modern will be recognized as one of the core books of Japanese film studies, a must-read for anyone interested in Japanese cinema. Because it brings Japanese cinema study into dialogue with important debates in history, area studies, and post colonial studies, it should have a wide and heterogeneous readership that will be attracted to its compelling analysis of important films and straightforward narration of

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Author

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Publisher

Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824863746

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Performing Arts, History