The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist visions understanding its singularities as a result of its isolation from the rest of the world and its close links to local aesthetic and philosophical traditions. Recent approaches however, have evidenced the limitations of this paradigm of ‘national cinema’. Higson (1989) opened a critical discussion on the existing consumption, text and production-based approaches to this concept. This article draws on Higson´s contribution and calls into question traditional theorising of Japanese film as a national cinema. Contradictions are illustrated by assessing the other side of the ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema: certain gendaigeki works that suc...
The English title of a recent book by renowned film scholar Yomota Inuhiko reads: “What is Japanese ...
Since the introduction of film to Japan in the 1890s, Japanese cinema has been continually influence...
There’s a Japanese film industry, and then there’s ‘Japanese Cinema’ – a construct we imagine and cr...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate ...
The aim of this Special Issue lies in expanding contemporary discussions on Japanese Cinema and its ...
This thesis investigates the Japanese film industry's interactions with the West and Asia, the devel...
Starting from the perspective that national cinema is not a neutral concept, but rather a film expre...
The present publication is the result of a collaborative project originally entitled “Japanese Trans...
The documentary mode has not had the recognition it deserves in the western historiography of Japane...
This article looks back to the first book imagining an “Asian cinema,” which was published in Japan...
Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's c...
The English title of a recent book by renowned film scholar Yomota Inuhiko reads: “What is Japanese ...
Since the introduction of film to Japan in the 1890s, Japanese cinema has been continually influence...
There’s a Japanese film industry, and then there’s ‘Japanese Cinema’ – a construct we imagine and cr...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist...
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate ...
The aim of this Special Issue lies in expanding contemporary discussions on Japanese Cinema and its ...
This thesis investigates the Japanese film industry's interactions with the West and Asia, the devel...
Starting from the perspective that national cinema is not a neutral concept, but rather a film expre...
The present publication is the result of a collaborative project originally entitled “Japanese Trans...
The documentary mode has not had the recognition it deserves in the western historiography of Japane...
This article looks back to the first book imagining an “Asian cinema,” which was published in Japan...
Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's c...
The English title of a recent book by renowned film scholar Yomota Inuhiko reads: “What is Japanese ...
Since the introduction of film to Japan in the 1890s, Japanese cinema has been continually influence...
There’s a Japanese film industry, and then there’s ‘Japanese Cinema’ – a construct we imagine and cr...