Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781684176045
,
9780674241152
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian Monographs 424
Content:
Part I. Backgrounds: the Great Kanto Earthquake and mass media: Great Kanto Earthquake documentary films and the state -- The testimony of the body: Nikkatsu's earthquake melodrama films -- "Realism" and modernity -- Part II. The power of cinema: identification and emotion: Desire and identification: the aspiring actress problem -- Intimacy and alienation: Murayama Tomoyoshi, modern media celebrity, and film -- Expressive excess: gendered bodies and proletarian texts.
Content:
"Examines the rise of cinema as a mass medium in Japan after the Great Kanto Earthquake, connecting the disaster to the new salience of emotion in public discourse, popular culture, and film and tracing how new forms of intimacy and emotion shaped by mass media became a major focus of cinematic discourse in the 1920s"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674241152
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Powers of the Real : Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2019 ISBN 9780674241152
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9781684176045
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