Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film

by Darrell William Davis

Book Overview

Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231102313
• ISBN13: 9780231102315
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher