Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics Volume 53

by Thomas Lamarre

Book Overview

In recent years, the impact of new media and new technologies has renewed interest in the emergence of cinema and film criticism. Yet studies to date have focused almost exclusively on Western cinema and problems of Western modernity. Shadows on the Screen offers a challenging new reevaluation of these issues. In addition to extensively annotated translations of the long-neglected film work of the celebrated Japanese writer, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929280335
• ISBN13: 9781929280339
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"