Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity

Book Overview

Bringing together a range of Japanese and western scholars, this is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Praised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka's career spanned the industrial development of cinema - from silent to sound, monochrome to colour. Alongside featuring in films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa, Tanaka was also the only Japanese woman filmmaker between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474409695
• ISBN13: 9781474409698
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 21.8" x 9.3"