film books: Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

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title: Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
writer: Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
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publisher: University of Hawaii Press
published on: 2008
ISBN: 0824831829
volume: 200 pages
size: 2.58 Mb

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Nippon Modern is the first intensive study of Japanese cinema in the
1920s and 1930s, a period in which the country's film industry was at
its most prolific and a time when cinema played a singular role in
shaping Japanese modernity. During the interwar period, the signs of
modernity were ubiquitous in Japan's urban architecture, literature,
fashion, advertising, popular music, and cinema. The reconstruction of
Tokyo following the disastrous earthquake of 1923 highlighted the
extent of this cultural transformation, and the film industry embraced
the reconfigured space as an expression of the modern. Shochiku Kamata
Film Studios (1920-1936), the focus of this study, was the only studio
that continued filmmaking in Tokyo following the city's complete
destruction.Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano points to the influence of the new
urban culture in Shochiku's interwar films, acclaimed as modan na eiga,
or modern films, by and for Japanese.Wada-Marciano's thought-provoking
examinations illustrate the reciprocal relationship between cinema and
Japan's vernacular modernity--what Japanese modernity actually meant to
Japanese. Neither a belated imitation of Western modernity nor an
isolated cultural invention, Japanese modernity began as a series of
negotiations of cultural influences constructed out of local needs.
During the interwar period, Japan's film industry began to compete with
Western cinemas, producing and distributing its own films and
negotiating its place in the Japanese market. It managed to shift the
locus of dominance away from Hollywood films by addressing the new
classes of labor with self-reflexive subjects and narratives. Film
images of salaried men, modern girls, college students, and nuclear
families made possible the sudden arrival and rapid proliferation of
the modern consumer subject in Japan.By searching out connections
between history and film texts, Wada-Marciano offers a new approach to
understanding Japan's national cinema. Her thorough and thoughtful
analyses of dozens of films within the cultural contexts of Japan
contribute to the current inquiry into non-Western vernacular
modernities. Nippon Modern will appeal to a wide range of readers in
diverse disciplines, including intellectual history, gender studies,
and literature, in addition to film/visual studies and Japanese
cultural studies.

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