Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan

by Diane Wei Lewis

Book Overview

Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Diane Wei Lewis shows how representations of women and signifiers of femininity were used to characterize new forms of pleasure and fantasy enabled by consumer culture and technological media. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, she analyzes the role that images...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674241169
• ISBN13: 9780674241169
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"