Dialectics Without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame

by Naoki Yamamoto

Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520351797
• ISBN13: 9780520351790
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"