Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History

by Scott Nygren

Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be ignored.In Time Frames, Scott Nygren explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written both within and beyond Japan, before and after Rashomon. He takes up the central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647089
• ISBN13: 9780816647088
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.9"