The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan

by Eric Cazdyn

The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, Eric Cazdyn theorizes a cultural history that highlights the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders--where culture and capital crisscross--and, in doing so, develops a new way of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329395
• ISBN13: 9780822329398
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"