Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945

by Hikari Hori

In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese cinema of the time was in fact almost wholly built on a foundation of Russian and British film theory as well as American film genres and techniques. Hori provides a range of examples that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501714546
• ISBN13: 9781501714542
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher