Add to ORKGThe chapter focuses on the production and reception of Love Letter (Koibumi, 1953) and The Moon Has Risen (Tsuki wa noborinu, 1955) –the first two films directed by Tanaka—to call into question the meaning and construction of the category of ‘woman director’. The chapter is divided in three parts. The first contextualises Tanaka’s decision to become a director within the post-war legal and social changes affecting women, illuminating how she positioned herself within trending discourses. The second offers a textual analysis of the representation of gender roles and power dynamics in both films to question whether Tanaka was offering new perspectives on the subject. The last part illuminates how the figure of ‘woman director’ was being defin...
Women’s cinema has been the focus of much of the scholarly discussion that has developed feminist fi...
This thesis analyzes women's exclusion and discrimination within the Japanese film industry. Gender ...
Twórczość japońskich reżyserów nowofalowych opisywana jest zwykle w przestrzeni akademickiej w konte...
This is one of the first publications to appraise star Tanaka Kinuyo?s trailblazing oeuvre as film d...
Book synopsis: This is the first book in English dedicated to the actor and director Tanaka Kinuyo. ...
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the number of female directors in Japan has notably incr...
The introduction presents an overview of Tanaka’s life and career vis-a-vis the history of twentieth...
Kinuyo Tanaka was, and still is, one of the most celebrated stars in the history of Japanese cinema....
In contrast to the canonical history of cinema and film theory, often dominated by academic texts an...
This chapter examines the work of Haneda Sumiko (1926-) one of the pioneering and most prolific docu...
Tazuko Sakane was the first female director in Japan. By 1936, Sakane had taken a variety of positio...
In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanes...
To refer to the Japanese postwar collapses multiple postwars into a single entity. This dissertation...
One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narr...
During the mid-1950s to the early 1970s a subversive cinema, known as the Japanese New Wave, arose i...
Women’s cinema has been the focus of much of the scholarly discussion that has developed feminist fi...
This thesis analyzes women's exclusion and discrimination within the Japanese film industry. Gender ...
Twórczość japońskich reżyserów nowofalowych opisywana jest zwykle w przestrzeni akademickiej w konte...
This is one of the first publications to appraise star Tanaka Kinuyo?s trailblazing oeuvre as film d...
Book synopsis: This is the first book in English dedicated to the actor and director Tanaka Kinuyo. ...
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the number of female directors in Japan has notably incr...
The introduction presents an overview of Tanaka’s life and career vis-a-vis the history of twentieth...
Kinuyo Tanaka was, and still is, one of the most celebrated stars in the history of Japanese cinema....
In contrast to the canonical history of cinema and film theory, often dominated by academic texts an...
This chapter examines the work of Haneda Sumiko (1926-) one of the pioneering and most prolific docu...
Tazuko Sakane was the first female director in Japan. By 1936, Sakane had taken a variety of positio...
In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanes...
To refer to the Japanese postwar collapses multiple postwars into a single entity. This dissertation...
One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narr...
During the mid-1950s to the early 1970s a subversive cinema, known as the Japanese New Wave, arose i...
Women’s cinema has been the focus of much of the scholarly discussion that has developed feminist fi...
This thesis analyzes women's exclusion and discrimination within the Japanese film industry. Gender ...
Twórczość japońskich reżyserów nowofalowych opisywana jest zwykle w przestrzeni akademickiej w konte...