Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

by Catherine Russell

Book Overview

Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960.
Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441133275
• ISBN13: 9781441133274
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"